dialysis machine
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- noun
- /daɪˈælɪsɪs məˈʃin/
- Specialized
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máquina de diálisis
- Patients on dialysis must spend a considerable amount of time connected to the dialysis machine.
- kidney dialysis machine
Examples
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He needs his dialysis machine, but once the storm knocks the power out in this building, nothing's going to work.
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Also needed are a whole range of medical supplies—everything from test strips for blood and urine analysis to dialysis machines and medications for respiratory ailments.
Academic text (2000) -
- I have to be on a dialysis machine... ...four hours a day.
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I am a slave to a dialysis machine.
Blog text (29) -
Now, we can't have her off the dialysis machine too long.
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He could hear the buzz of the dialysis machine.
Fiction book (1990) -
We took out a second mortgage on the house to get her one of those mobile dialysis machines so she doesn't have to go to the hospital every day.
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Badly damaged kidneys lead to dialysis, whereby patients are hooked up to a dialysis machine in the hospital.
Blog text (16) -
The development of antibiotic treatment for bacterial illness and equipment such as the ventilator and the kidney dialysis machine helped medical doctors extend the lives of people who would certainly have died in the time before these advances.
Academic text (2011) -
He needs his dialysis machine, but once the storm knocks the power out in this building, nothing's going to work.
Synonyms
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A machine that filters a person's blood during kidney treatment to remove waste and extra water
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A machine that filters waste from a person's blood when the kidneys do not work
A machine that cleans a person's blood when their kidneys do not work
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Morphology
The meaning 'a device that performs dialysis' is directly and compositionally derived from 'dialysis' (the process of separating substances through a membrane) combined with 'machine' (a powered device). This noun–noun compound follows a regular English naming pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so learners who know both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun dialysis machine comes from dialysis, a word for 'filtering' blood, and machine, meaning a device that does the work. One helpful picture is blood flowing through a large coffee filter that keeps the good parts and lets waste pass away, so the dialysis machine 'cleans' the blood for people whose kidneys do not work.