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Precocious(medicine)
precocious(dictionary)
precocious(dictionary)
puberty, precocious(medicine)
precocious puberty(medicine)
polycystic(medicine)
kidney, polycystic(medicine)
polycystic ovary(medicine)
polycystic kidney(medicine)

polycystic kidney (medicine) and Precocious (medicine)


polycystic kidney (medicine)


polycystic kidney


A progressive disease characterised by formation of multiple cysts of varying size scattered diffusely throughout both kidney's, resulting in compression and destruction of kidney parenchyma, usually with hypertension, gross haematuria, and uraemia; there are two major types: 1) with onset in infancy or early childhood, usually with autosomal recessive inheritance; 2) with onset in adulthood, with autosomal dominant inheritance.

Synonym: polycystic disease of kidneys.


Precocious (medicine)


precocious


1. Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees.

2. Developed more than is natural or usual at a given age; exceeding what is to be expected of one's years; too forward; used especially of mental forwardness; as, a precocious child; precocious talents.

Origin: L. Praecox, -ocis, and praecoquus, fr. Praecoquere to cook or ripen beforehand; prae = before + coquere to cook. See Cook, and cf. Apricot.

Source: Websters Dictionary