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say it: dahy-AL-uh-suhs
dialysis is a noun meaning "separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes". It carries one recorded sense.
separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dialysis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.