nephritis (nef-ri'tis)

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 ti ue, acute n. A type including acute suppurative, hemorrhagic, cellular exudative, or parenchymatous degenerative changes. arteriosclerotic n. The chronic interstitial form present in arteriosclerosis, chronic interstitial n. Inflammation of the inter tubular connective ti ue of the kidney, producing the pale granular or contracted kidney. chronic n. A progre ive diffuse inflammation and degeneration of the kidneys. glomerulocapsular n. That which affects both the capsule and the glomerulus, hemorrhagic n. An acute form characterized by hemorrhages into the tubules, interstitial n. The types which principally affect the connective ti ue stroma of the kidney. The acute type shows an exudation of lymphocytes and plasma cells, and the chronic form is characterized by hyperplasia of connective ti ue or fibrosis, parenchymatous n. That which principally affects the parenchyma of the kidney. It may be acute or chronic, saturnine n. A form due to chronic lead poisoning, scarlatinal n. Acute n. due to scarlet fever with an irregular distribution of lymphocytes and plasma cells in the interstitial ti ue and, a proliferation of the epithelium lining Bowman's capsule, suppurative n. A form showing acute purulent inflammation, tubal n., tubular n. A variety principally affecting the tubules. [Gr., nephros, the kidney, + it is, inflammation.]