Bright disease
(brīts)
[Richard Bright, Brit. physician, 1789-1858]
A vague and obsolete term for kidney disease. It usually refers to nonsuppurative inflammatory or degenerative kidney disease marked by proteinuria and hematuria and sometimes by edema, hypertension, and nitrogen retention.
SEE: nephritis
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