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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Acute inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney, caused by bacterial infection.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney. Also called endonephritis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.

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  • noun pyelonephritis

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun inflammation of the renal pelvis

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek puelos, basin; see pleu- in Indo-European roots + –itis.]

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pyel- +‎ -itis

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