glomerulonephritis

glomerulonephritis
glomerulonephritis [glō mer΄yo͞o lō΄ne frīt′is]
n.
[ModL: see GLOMERULUS & NEPHRITIS]
a type of nephritis characterized by inflamed glomeruli and probably caused by certain antibody-antigen complexes in the blood filtering through the kidney

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