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Inflammation of the kidney. It is a focal or diffuse proliferative or destructive process which may involve the glomerulus, tubule, or interstitial renal tissue. (Dorland, 27th ed)

Inflammation of the kidneys.

Inflammation of the kidneys.

Is characterized by acute pain; burning heat, and a sensation of weight in the region of one or both kidneys; suppression or diminution of urine; fever; dysuria; ischuria; constipation, more or less obstinate; retraction of the testicle, and numbness of the thigh of the same side. It may be distinguised into simple and calculous nephritis-Lithonephritis. In the latter, the urine often contains small particles of uric acid or of urate of ammonia. The most common causes of nephritis are,-excess in irritating and alcoholic drinks; abuse of diuretics; blows or falls on the region of the kidneys; the presence of renal calculi, &c. It may be distinguished from lumbago by the pain which attends the latter on the slightest motion, &c. It usually terminates by resolution in from one week to two or three. It may, however, end in suppuration-pyonephrite; or may become chronic-chrononephrite, (Piorry.) In the treatment, antiphlogistics, as bleeding, baths, &c., are required to the full extent; with the use of diluents, opiates, &c.

Inflammation of the kidney.

A diseased condition of the kidney including degenerative changes such as cloudy swelling, fatty degeneration, necrosis, etc. and acute and chronic inflammatory changes such as congestion, hemorrhage, cellular and serous exudation, and hyperplasia of connective tissue, [Gr.]