dialyzer

English

Etymology

From dialyze +‎ -er.

Noun

dialyzer (plural dialyzers)

1. (medicine) The part of a hemodialysis machine that performs filtration by unequal diffusion through membranes
   • 2011 August 3, Rich Wisniewski, “Healthy Families, Healthy Homes: Dialysis Unit Reopens”, in KFYR-TV‎^[1]:

     It mixes with the dialysis machine, and then it exchanges the elements through the blood; through the dialyzer.

Derived terms

• electrodialyzer
• microdialyzer
• subdialyzer

 

Translations

part of a hemodialysis machine

• German: Dialysator m
• Irish: scagdhealaitheoir m
• Italian: dializzatore
• Korean: 투석조 (tuseokjo)