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hemodialysis
Subject Category
H Health and Pathology
RDF/XML Format:
http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/45093.rdf
Scope Note
Use for therapeutic cleansing of the blood based on dialysis in cases of renal insufficiency; for other (e.g. laboratory and industrial) applications of the process of selective diffusion through a semipermeable membrane to separate small solute molecules and ions in a mixture from colloids and larger substances, USE dialysis.
Persistent URI:
http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/45093
Used For
kidney dialysis
renal dialysis
Broader Term
therapeutics
Related Term
kidney diseases
Spanish
hemodiálisis
Term Number
45093