ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artificial kidney mean? 

• ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY (noun)
  The noun ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY has 1 sense:

1. a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body

  Familiarity information: ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

artificial kidney; hemodialyzer

Hypernyms ("artificial kidney" is a kind of...):

dialysis machine; dialyzer (a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes)

 Context examples 

Hemodialysis uses a machine. It is sometimes called an artificial kidney. You usually go to a special clinic for treatments several times a week.

(Dialysis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)