NOUN
- a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body
How To Use artificial kidney In A Sentence
- These solutions included, in addition to the artificial kidney, Europe's first blood bank, oxygenators and an artificial heart.
- LONDON (Reuters) - Patients with chronic kidney failure could be freed from fixed dialysis machines, thanks to a wearable artificial kidney that has shown promising results in a pilot study.
- And doctors could test an implantable artificial kidney next year. The Sun
- Sections that I visit frequently include those involving artificial kidneys and dialysis, gas exchange and artificial lungs, liver-assist devices, detoxification, and biomaterials.
- An artificial kidney powered by the circulatory system could be the first implantable device to replace kidney donation and dialysis, scientists say.
- Since there was no artificial liver or heart equivalent to the artificial kidney, if these transplanted organs did not function immediately, death was inevitable.
- This is first time, he says, that an artificial kidney fashioned from cells and biocompatible materials has produced what seems to be urine.
- When used in hemodialysis, it is part of an artificial kidney system for the treatment of patients with renal failure or toxemic conditions and provides access to a patient's blood for hemodialysis.
