Chronic nephritis.
Inflammation of the kidneys, characterized by albuminuria and high blood pressure.
A vague and obsolete term for kidney disease. It usually refers to non-suppurative inflammatory or degenerative kidney disease marked by proteinuria and hematuria and sometimes by edema, hypertension, and nitrogen retention.
A condition known as acute or chronic nephritis was originally named after Dr. Richard Bright (1789-1858). He was the first to distinguish between edema resulting from heart disease and that arising from kidney disease. Nowadays, there exists a more comprehensive categorization of both acute and chronic nephritis, and the term is gradually becoming less commonly used.