polycystic kidney disease

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   kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts; often leads to kidney failure

   SynonymsPKD

   Broaderkidney disease

Questions about polycystic kidney disease

What does polycystic kidney disease mean?

polycystic kidney disease means "kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts; often leads to kidney failure".

What is another word for polycystic kidney disease?

Close synonyms include PKD. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is polycystic kidney disease a common word?

polycystic kidney disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.