Bright dis·ease

(brīt),

nonsuppurative nephritis with albuminuria and edema, associated in fatal cases with large white kidneys; or with hematuria and red kidneys; or with contracted granular kidneys, corresponding to the stages of glomerulonephritis now termed subacute or membranous, acute, and chronic, respectively.

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Bright,

Richard, English internist and pathologist, 1789-1858.

Bright disease - nonsuppurative nephritis with albuminuria and edema.

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