Meaning & use

Dialyzed

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purified or separated substances using dialysis, especially by filtering a patient's blood through a machine when the kidneys fail.

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The patient was dialyzed three times a week while waiting for a kidney transplant.

Chemists dialyzed the solution to remove small unwanted molecules.

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Past tense of "dialyze"; the underlying process, dialysis, separates substances based on their ability to pass through a semipermeable membrane.

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