Artificial kidney

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dialysis machine, an external device that cleans the blood of people with kidney failure; from the 1940s to the 2000s, not portable, but wearable versions now exist.

    "An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine."

  2. 2
    a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body wordnet
  3. 3
    An implantable bionic device to replace the function of a natural kidney, long dreamed of but not yet feasible.
  4. 4
    A bioengineered (laboratory-grown) biologic kidney (from cultured cells), still experimental.

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dialyseshemodialyzer

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"An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine."

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