Synonyms & related words for glomerulonephritis

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of glomerulonephritis. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to glomerulonephritis

Explore words related to glomerulonephritis — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include nephritis, nephrosis, nephropathy, pyelonephritis, pyelonephritic, pyelitis, nephropathic, vasculitis. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does glomerulonephritis come from?

The word glomerulonephritis breaks down into 4 roots of Latin and Greek origin: glomerul, from Latin glomus (“ball, cluster”); o, from Latin o (“connective vowel”); nephr, from Greek nephros (“kidney”); and -itis, from Greek itis (“inflammation”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.