Taber's Medical Dictionary
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
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Bright Disease." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/751915/all/Bright_disease.
Bright disease. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/751915/all/Bright_disease. Accessed November 8, 2024.
Bright disease. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/751915/all/Bright_disease
Bright Disease [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 November 08]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/751915/all/Bright_disease.
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