artificial kidney

1. 1.

   a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body

   Synonymshemodialyzer

   Broaderdialyzer

Questions about artificial kidney

What does artificial kidney mean?

artificial kidney means "a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body".

What is another word for artificial kidney?

Close synonyms include hemodialyzer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is artificial kidney a common word?

artificial kidney is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.