renotrophic

renotrophic
Relating to any agent influencing the growth or nutrition of the kidney or to the action of such an agent. SYN: nephrotrophic, nephrotropic, renotropic. [reno- + G. trophe, nourishment]

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re·no·tro·phic (re″no-troґfik) renotropic.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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