familial (redirected from Familial renal disease)

familial /fa·mil·i·al/ (fah-mil´e-il) occurring in more members of a family than would be expected by chance.

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fa·mil·ial (f-mlyl)

adj.

Occurring or tending to occur among family members, usually by heredity.

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familial

occurring in or affecting members of a closely related group of animals more than would be expected by chance.

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familial aggregations

groups of diseased animals concentrated in related groups of animals. Called also familial clusters.

Basenji familial anemia

see familial nonspherocytic anemia of Basenji dogs.

familial cluster

see familial aggregations (above).

familial convulsions and ataxia of cattle

an inherited, congenital disease of Aberdeen Angus calves characterized by intermittent tetanic convulsions which are replaced as the calf gets older by incoordination and then paralysis in older animals. The characteristic lesion is a selective cerebellar cortical degeneration.

familial disease

diseases which occur at a higher than expected frequency in closely related groups of animals, where the relationship is a shared environment or an inheritance.

familial glomerulonephritis

of Dobermans characterized by development of signs in dogs less than a year old but cases may survive for some years; the histopathological lesion is a membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.

familial renal disease

includes familial glomerulonephritis, nephropathy, juvenile nephropathy, all of dogs, familial glomerulonephritis of Finnish-Landrace sheep, progressive renal fibrosis of mutant Southdown sheep.