Do you know renal failure ?I would like to ask to those who are native English speakers.
Do you understand the word RENAL instead of KIDNEY ?
FAILURE instead of DISEASE ?
INJURY instead of FAILURE ?
I would like to ask these questions because in these days CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE and ACUTE RENAL FAILURE have become commonly used instead of CRF and ARF in medical field.
I know the new definition about these disease. And I also know the purpose to propaganda these disease.
I think RENAL might be a little difficult to understand than KIDNEY by people because it is rather medical terms.
I don't know the difference between FAILURE and DISEASE in understandability.
I wonder what percentage native English speaker cannot understand the word RENAL or FAILURE which might be medical terms.
ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY instead of ACUTE RENAL FAILURE is right.
Or it doesn't make sense.
I'm sorry to put this question into this medical category.
I should have put this into the category: Home>Education & Reference>Words & Wordplay.
Posted by hairhorn
a hell of a lot more people understand "renal" than understand "nephrology"
Posted by Dr. Chris M
Acute Renal Failure means the kidney is not functioning properly and it just happened
Chronic Renal Failure will probably end up in fibrosis of the kidney and eventally death. Chronic Renal Disease can be caused by numerous factors which i wont discuss..
Posted by GaiaOne
"ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY instead of ACUTE RENAL FAILURE is right.
Or it doesn't make sense"
Actually, these do make sense to me. "Acute renal failure" is a result. It's what is happening. "Acute kidney injury" is a cause. It may or may not result in failure.
Perhaps the problem here is not whether or not native English speakers understand the terms. (And to be fair, there is quite a difference in American, British, and Australian English .) Perhaps the problem is that you don't quite understand how we process our native language. It's full of subtleties that can be lost to non-native speakers. Remember, English has the largest vocabulary in the world. The next largest language has only about 1/4 of the vocabulary.
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