hemodialysis

English

Alternative forms

• haemodialysis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αἱμο- (haimo-, “blood”) +‎ διάλυσις (diálusis, “separation, dissolution”), from διαλύω (dialúō, “I separate”), from διά (diá, “through”) +‎ λύω (lúō, “I loose”). By surface analysis, hemo- +‎ dialysis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hemodialysis (countable and uncountable, plural hemodialyses)

1. (medicine) Dialysis that uses an extracorporeal apparatus to remove waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.

Related terms

• hemodialysate
• hemodialyse
• peritoneal dialysis

Translations

extracorporeal dialysis

• Armenian: հեմոդիալիզ (hemodializ)
• Bulgarian: хемодиализа f (hemodializa)
• Catalan: hemodiàlisi f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 洗腎／洗肾 (sai² san⁶)

  Mandarin: 洗腎／洗肾 (zh) (xǐshèn), 血液透析 (zh) (xuèyètòuxi)

• Czech: hemodialýza (cs) f
• Finnish: hemodialyysi (fi)
• French: hémodialyse (fr) f
• German: Hämodialyse f, Dialyse (de) f, Blutreinigung f, Blutwäsche (de) f
• Greek: αιμοδιάλυση (el) f (aimodiálysi)
• Italian: emodialisi (it) f
• Japanese: 血液透析 (けつえきとうせき, ketsueki tōseki)
• Polish: hemodializa f
• Portuguese: hemodiálise (pt) f
• Russian: гемодиа́лиз (ru) m (gemodiáliz)
• Slovak: hemodialýza (sk) f
• Spanish: hemodiálisis (es) f