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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

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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)

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