Bright disease

Bright disease
term formerly often used for kidney disease with proteinuria, usually glomerulonephritis.

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  • Bright disease — (brīt) [Richard Bright, English physician, 1789–1858] see under disease …   Medical dictionary

  • Bright disease — Type of nephritis without pus formation or edema. It may or may not recur. The acute stage involves severe inflammation and back pain, deficient kidney function, swelling, and hypertension. In the subacute stage the kidney enlarges, blood does… …   Universalium

  • Bright, Richard — ▪ British physician born Sept. 28, 1789, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng. died Dec. 16, 1858, London  British physician who was the first to describe the clinical manifestations of the kidney disorder known as Bright s disease (Bright disease), or… …   Universalium

  • disease — diseasedly, adv. diseasedness, n. /di zeez /, n., v., diseased, diseasing. n. 1. a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection,… …   Universalium

  • Bright's disease — is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis. The term is no longer used, as diseases are now classified according to their more fully understood etiologies.It is… …   Wikipedia

  • Bright's disease — Bright s dis*ease [From Dr. Bright of London, who first described it.] (Med.) An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bright's disease — brīts n any of several kidney diseases marked esp. by albumin in the urine Bright Richard (1789 1858) British internist and pathologist. One of the foremost physicians of his day, Bright was particularly interested in diseases of the pancreas,… …   Medical dictionary

  • Bright — may refer to:*Brightness, the perception of how dark or light a source of luminance is *Being bright , describing colloquially, something with intelligence (trait) *The Brights movement, a social movement promoting the naturalistic… …   Wikipedia

  • Bright's disease — Bright s′ disease n. pat any kidney disease characterized by albuminuria and heightened blood pressure • Etymology: 1825–35; after R. Bright (1789–1858), English physician …   From formal English to slang

  • Bright's disease — chronic nephritis, 1831, so called for English physician Richard Bright (1789 1858), who in 1827 first described it …   Etymology dictionary

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