Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The presence of albumin in the urine, sometimes indicating kidney disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, the presence of albumin in the urine, indicating changes in the blood or in the kidneys.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The presence of
albumin in theurine , often a symptom of renal disease
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the presence of excessive protein (chiefly albumin but also globulin) in the urine; usually a symptom of kidney disorder
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Examples
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The albuminuria was the well known infectio-toxic 'febrile' form; indicanuria was in proportion to tile fecal stasis.
Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895
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The study found that atrasentan reduced the presence of albuminuria, which is a protein in a patient's urine that is a main sign of diabetic kidney disease.
Abbott drug meets goals in kidney disease study - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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Finally, bloody stools, transient albuminuria, and transient hematuria are occasionally seen in helicopter pilots flying heavy schedules.
Hey JSC: ARC Has A Centrifuge You Can Use (update) - NASA Watch 2009
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Scientists in this study "hypothesized that sugary soda consumption was associated with albuminuria, a sensitive marker for kidney disease."
How drinking too much sugary soda pop raises risk of kidney disease in women 2009
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In P. falciparum malaria, additional laboratory findings may include mild anemia, mild decrease in blood platelets (thrombocytopenia), elevation of bilirubin, elevation of aminotransferases, albuminuria, and the presence of abnormal bodies in the urine, called urinary casts.
Malaria 2008
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All these efforts have resulted in a perceptible reduction of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) by nearly 2%, which can lead to a risk reduction of 76% in retinopathy and 34% in albuminuria in persons living with diabetes.
'Diabetes doctor is at your doorstep' in Chunampet villages 2008
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For he was very ill, some people said with albuminuria, like my grandmother.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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I, Madame, I do not, like you, fancy myself to be suffering from albuminuria, I have not your nervous fear of food, nor of fresh air, but I can never go to sleep without getting out of bed at least twenty times to see if my door is shut.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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Along with albuminuria and edema it is part of the syndrome of pre-eclampsia.
Chapter 14 1993
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He has studied the principles of sphygmomanometry and devised a recording sphygmomanometer, with which he studied, in man, the influence of pulse pressure on kidney secretion and on orthostatic albuminuria.
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