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An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.

Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes. -- n.

The kidney vetch.

lard. -- Leaf lard, the internal fat of the hog, separated in leaves or masses from the kidneys, etc.; also, the same melted.

Having the quality of, or used for, dissolving or destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys; as, lithontriptic forcéps. -- n.

ining the glomeruli or Malpighian tufts, at the extremities of the urinary tubules of the kidney. Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, masses of adenoid tissue connected with branches of the splenic artery.

A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings.

The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e

eep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata.

; saxonite. -- Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant (Oxyria digyna with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. Gray. -- Mountain sparrow (Zoöl.), the European tree sparrow. -- Mountain spinach. (Bot.) See Orach.…

s), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort.

Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter. Quain.

ard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.

A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.

Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.

An inflammation of the kidneys.

A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.

Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.

nstrument for measuring the variations in size of the internal organs of the body, as the kidney, spleen, etc.

The calyx of a crinoid. Pelvis of the kidney (Anat.), the basinlike cavity into which the ureter expands as it joins the kidney.