contracted kidney

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con·tract·ed kid·ney

a diffusely scarred kidney in which the relatively large amount of abnormal fibrous tissue and ischemic atrophy leads to a moderate or great reduction in the size of the organ, as in arteriolar nephrosclerosis and chronic glomerulonephritis.

con·tract·ed kid·ney

(kŏn-trakt'ĕd kid'nē)

A diffusely scarred kidney in which fibrous tissue and ischemic atrophy lead to reduction in the size of the organ.

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Hippocrates had noticed white clouds in urine, and the 13th-century Italian physician Saliceto provided a classic description of dropsy, scanty urine, and contracted kidneys. The preeminent Arab physician Rhazes had observed the association between damaged kidneys and dropsy.

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