hydronephrosis
noun
hydronephrosis is a noun meaning “distension of the kidneys due to obstruction in the flow of urine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-N-E-P-H-R-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydronephrosis is hydronephroses.
What does hydronephrosis mean?
noun
- 1
distension of the kidneys due to obstruction in the flow of urine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydronephrosis
- hydronephroses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydronephrosis?
Hydronephrosis appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hydronephrosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pathological condition:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | hidronefrosis |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hydronephrosis come from?
From hydro- + nephrosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).