dialysis

A treatment that removes waste from your blood when your kidneys cannot do it properly.

• He needs dialysis twice a week.
• The hospital installed new dialysis machines.
• She has been on dialysis for several months.

How to use it: be on dialysis (My uncle has been on dialysis since January.)

Common phrases: on dialysis, dialysis treatment, dialysis machine

A process that separates tiny particles by letting smaller ones pass through a thin sheet.

• Dialysis removed salts from the solution.
• The laboratory uses dialysis to separate small molecules.
• Particles pass through the membrane during dialysis.

Common phrases: dialysis membrane, dialysis experiment, dialysis of something