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artificial kidney

noun

Definitions

  1. A dialysis machine, an external device that cleans the blood of people with kidney failure

    A dialysis machine, an external device that cleans the blood of people with kidney failure; from the 1940s to the 2000s, not portable, but wearable versions now exist.

    • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

  2. An implantable bionic device to replace the function of a natural kidney, long dreamed of…

    An implantable bionic device to replace the function of a natural kidney, long dreamed of but not yet feasible.

  3. A bioengineered (laboratory-grown) biologic kidney (from cultured cells), still…

    A bioengineered (laboratory-grown) biologic kidney (from cultured cells), still experimental.

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