What's the difference between hydronephrosis and kidney?
Hydronephrosis
Definition:
(n.) An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, it appears that acute hydronephrosis or worsening of an existing hydronephrosis has been somewhat overlooked as a possible cause of uncertain abdominal pain during pregnancy.
(2) The kidneys with obstructive hydronephrosis demonstrated a plateau of signal enhancement without decrease (-0.7% within 40 minutes).
(3) Excretory urogram revealed bilateral hydronephrosis and voiding cystogram revealed VUR on left ureter.
(4) A 68-year-old female patient was admitted for the examination of duplication of right ureter and right hydronephrosis.
(5) Patients with hydronephrosis were characterized by stage IIIB-IV (67%), and primary residual tumor size greater than 2 cm (81%).
(6) The five grades of hydronephrosis were also characterized on the basis of the histological and electron-microscopical patterns and perioperational bioptic findings.
(7) Early surgery in hydronephrosis may be indicated to salvage kidney function.
(8) And even after the disintegration of stone with ESWL, hydronephrosis remained due to ureteral stricture with small stone fragments.
(9) Both methods have a place if diversion is necessary in cases of severe hydronephrosis and decompensated ureters.
(10) A case of cerebral gigantism with hydronephrosis in a 20-month-old boy is described.
(11) To produce a chronic moderate hydronephrosis in dog, a method of partial ureteral occlusion using a specially designed polypropylene obturator was developed.
(12) IVP in both the cases of irreducible prolapse and retention of urine revealed hydroureter and hydronephrosis bilaterally.
(13) X-ray investigations showed a right renal pelvic tumor and left nonfunctioning hydronephrosis.
(14) The neoplasms of the sympathetic nerve origin produce first the displacement of kidney and then the deformation of pelvico -calyceal system with modeling signs and sometimes with hydronephrosis.
(15) In a patient with membranous nephropathy and bilateral pyeloureteral stenosis with hydronephrosis, we examined the possibility that an increase in the intratubular pressure could facilitate the passage of the Fx1A antigens to the circulation.
(16) Hydronephrosis in the rabbit kidney was made by left ureteric ligation for 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks, followed by relief of obstruction with uretero-ureteric anastomosis.
(17) Radionuclide renal flow and imaging studies are more sensitive than nephrotomography in detecting hydronephrosis, the most common cause of unilateral renal nonvisualization, but also require some renal function to be of diagnostic value.
(18) DIP revealed a loss of bladder distensibility, and bilateral hydronephrosis and hydroureter.
(19) Giant hydronephrosis is an infrequent urological entity.
(20) We found that sonography may not readily differentiate fetuses with hydronephrosis with obstruction from those without obstruction.
Kidney
Definition:
(n.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
(n.) Habit; disposition; sort; kind.
(n.) A waiter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(2) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(3) In kidney, both age groups responded with an increase in activity.
(4) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(5) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
(6) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
(7) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(8) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
(9) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(10) To identify the NHE-1 protein and to establish its cellular and subcellular localization in the rabbit kidney, we prepared antibodies to a NHE-1 fusion protein.
(11) The kidney disease was characterized by diffuse beaded deposition of rat gammaglobulin along the glomerular capillaries and proteinuria.
(12) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(13) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(14) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(15) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(16) A study of the time-course of the response during aortic stenosis of 30 min duration showed early release of renin from the innervated kidney at a time (5 min) when little release occurred from the denervated one.
(17) Rates of PC in vitro metabolism by liver and kidney cytosolic cysteine conjugate beta-lyases (beta-lyases) were similar, but metabolism by renal mitochondrial beta-lyase occurred at a 3-fold higher rate than the rate obtained with hepatic mitochondrial beta-lyase.
(18) In the kidneys the index of incorporation inthe epithelial cells of the renal cortex was 7.5-fold and in the brain cortex epithelium 15-fold as increased, respectively.
(19) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.
(20) The relative contributions of transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression to the increase in constitutively expressed cellular proteins were examined in mouse kidneys undergoing compensatory growth following unilateral nephrectomy (UNI-NX).