kidney machine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kidney machine
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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“They are moral problems, value problems. Who should get the kidney machine, the 25-year-old mother or the 62-year-old senator?”
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2023
“Howlin’ Wolf almost died on stage, plugged into his kidney machine, so there’s no reason why we wouldn’t go exactly the same way,” Wood says.
From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2016
There he would be hooked up for hours at a stretch to a kidney machine that would purge his body of poisonous wastes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seeking a cheaper kidney machine, the inventive Kolff has used standard washing machines to slosh the outer bath, sausage casing for the blood coil, and 46-oz. fruit-juice cans as disposable blood-coil holders.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lifesaving alternative to the kidney machine For Ron Morgan, 36, of Macon, Mo., the future looked bleak.
From Time Magazine Archive
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