pyelonephritis

14 letters · noun · scores 4,600 in SpellHuntr

noun

inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis caused by bacterial infection

Pyelonephritis in a sentence

The urinogenous or ascending nephropathies are divisible into two great groups (a) the hydronephrotic nephropathies and (b) the pyelonephritides.

The kidneys of acute pyelonephritis have small white abscesses on the subcapsular surface and on cut surfaces.

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