Definitions for dialysis

dialysis di·al·y·sis

Spelling: [dahy-al-uh-sis]
IPA: /daɪˈæl ə sɪs/

Dialysis is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in dialysis (adiilssy).

Definitions for dialysis

noun

  1. Physical Chemistry. the separation of crystalloids from colloids in a solution by diffusion through a membrane.
  2. Biochemistry. the separation of large molecules, as proteins, from small molecules and ions in a solution by allowing the latter to pass through a semipermeable membrane.
  3. Medicine/Medical. (in kidney disease) the process by which uric acid and urea are removed from circulating blood by means of a dialyzer.

Origin of dialysis

1580-90; Late Latin Greek diálysis a separation. See dia-, -lysis

Examples for dialysis

The result can be total kidney failure and the need for dialysis; for some people, the kidney failure is permanent.

The disjunction or dialysis of the carpels, for instance, frequently renders axile placentation marginal.

The first and still the best example is dialysis, which costs more than $40,000 a year.

Hence we can easily separate by dialysis two bodies of different groups which are mixed in a solution.

Kidney disease, formerly a major cause of death, has basically dropped out of the chart thanks to the invention of dialysis.

Although the Al Qaeda chief was said to require dialysis for kidney disorders, no dialysis machines were found at the house.

dialysis, the process by means of which a crystalline substance may be separated from a colloidal body.

dialysis has also been recently applied in the separation of alkaloids.

He waged war on the modern with a Siemens dialysis machine in-tow, bankrolled by Aramco petrodollars.

This body is soluble in water, and consequently is not precipitated by dialysis.

Word Value for dialysis
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12

Words with friends

12

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