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py·elo·ve·nous back·flow

n :  drainage of fluid from the renal pelvis of a kidney into the renal venous system under certain conditions (as in retrograde pyelography) in which abnormal amounts of pressure occur in a direction opposite to normal - called also pyelovenous reflux  .
 
 

 
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