Definition of "nephritic" [ne•phrit•ic]

• Of or relating to the kidneys; renal. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or affected with nephritis. (adjective)

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• "From the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., to be used by Dr. Chanutin in connection with his project on Fat Metabolism in the "nephritic" rat"
• "Thousands visited the springs hoping for cures for afflictions including (according to one 1821 inventory) “Habitual Costiveness,” “Depraved appetite,” “Calculous and nephritic complaints,” “Cutaneous eruptions,” “Some species or states of gout,” “Some species of dropsy,” scrofula, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea."
• "She Is Blond Sin Dim, nephritic, yet single whoosh!"