Medicina: Nefrologia: Dialisi
| English |
| uremia (en) |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun phrase
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| Grammatical label |
Countable
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| Definition |
An excess of urea and other nitrogenous waste in the blood. An autointoxication occurring in certain cases of nephritis or in anuria from any cause; it is not known what the toxic agent or agents may be, whether poisons normally formed in the body and excreted in the urine or some new substance formed in consequence of the altered metabolism. The symptoms are chiefly nervous: headache, vomiting, dyspnea, insomnia, delirium, convulsions and coma
Uremia has been described as a state of chronic endothelial as shown by a typical pattern of endothelial markers in the sera of HD patients
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| Definition source |
Stedman´s Medical Dictionary
American Society of Nephrology (ingl 2)
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| Context |
Uremia alone could not cause increased cytokine concentrations (TNF-alpha and IL-6) or affect the response of PBMCs to whole blood stimulation
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| Context source |
American Society of Nephrology (ingl 5)
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| Synonym |
Azotemia
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| Subject field |
Dialysis
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| Sub-field (level 2) |
Elimination of toxic substances
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| Partitive concept |
urea, creatinine, nitrogen, ureic acid
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| Coordinate concept |
exogenous intoxication
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| it |
Uremia
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| Reliability code |
3
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