Usually means: Kidney disease causing organ swelling.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word nephrosis:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. nephrosis: Merriam-Webster
  2. nephrosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nephrosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nephrosis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nephrosis: Vocabulary.com
  6. nephrosis: Wiktionary
  7. nephrosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. nephrosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. nephrosis: Dictionary.com
  10. Nephrosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. nephrosis: Rhymezone
  12. nephrosis: FreeDictionary.org
  13. nephrosis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. nephrosis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nephrosis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. nephrosis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Nephrosis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  8. nephrosis: Medical dictionary
  9. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  10. Nephrosis: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nephrosis, Nephrosis, Nephrosis: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See nephrotic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nephrosis)

noun:  (pathology) 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.

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