nephrosis
noun
nephrosis is a noun meaning “A non-inflammatory disease of the kidneys that is characterised by the leaking of blood protein into the urine, swelling or oedema, and degenerative…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-P-H-R-O-S-I-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nephrosis is nephroses.
What does nephrosis mean?
noun
- 1
A non-inflammatory disease of the kidneys that is characterised by the leaking of blood protein into the urine, swelling or oedema, and degenerative lesions.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nephrosis?
Nephrosis has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nephrosis
- nephroses plural
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How common is nephrosis?
Nephrosis appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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).
Nephrosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disease:
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Where does nephrosis come from?
From nephro- + -osis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).