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Saracenic (iou)



Saracenic adjective. M17.
[medieval Latin Saracenicus, from late Latin Saracenus: see SARACEN, -IC.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Saracens. M17.
spec. Designating (a building etc. in) a characteristically Islamic architectural style. Formerly also, designating a light Gothic style. M18.
Barbaric, heathenish. rare. M19.
Saracenical adjective (now rare or obsolete) = SARACENIC E17.
Saracenican adjective = SARACENIC E17-L18.

granular kidney (medicine)


granular kidney


A kidney in which fairly uniform, diffusely and evenly situated foci of scarring of the interstitial tissue of the cortex (and sometimes scarring of glomeruli), and the associated slight degree of bulging of groups of dilated tubules, leads to the development of a minutely bosselated surface; such kidney's are seen in arteriolar nephrosclerosis or chronic glomerulonephritis.

Synonym: sclerotic kidney.