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dialyze

American  
[dahy-uh-lahyz] / ˈdaɪ əˌlaɪz /
especially British, dialyse

verb (used with object)

dialyzed, dialyzing
  1. to subject to dialysis; separate or procure by dialysis.


verb (used without object)

dialyzed, dialyzing
  1. to undergo dialysis.

Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of dialyze

First recorded in 1860–65; dia- + -lyze


Example Sentences

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For those who dialyze at home, it was $66,751 per year, and for those who received a transplant, $32,914.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2013

But training patients takes time and upfront costs, mostly not reimbursed, says Joyce F. Jackson, CEO of the kidney center, where 16 percent of patients dialyze at home, a higher rate than at most centers.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2013

The Government now pays more than $1 billion a year to dialyze more than 50,000 patients with kidney disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

The material was then dialyzed, sterile filtered, and freeze dried.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

Some patients are so unstable when they arrive, they must be dialyzed in the intensive care unit or one of the shock trauma rooms.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2016

Emergency patients only get dialyzed on average once per week.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2016

The Dallas patient was intubated and dialyzed, two procedures that put those taking care of him at risk.

From Forbes ● Oct. 25, 2014

In beer, etc., the mixture may be neutralized with carbonate of potassium, dialyzed, the fluid concentrated and allowed to crystallize, when crystals of nitrate of potassium may be recognized.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson

Fried man, director of the renal diseases section at New York's Downstate Medical Center, had planned to take 25 kidney patients on a European holiday in 1974, dialyzing them at stopovers en route.

From Time Magazine Archive

The solution should not be more than an inch deep in the dialyzing vessel, which is then made to float upon distilled water in a larger vessel of suitable size.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux

Not long ago, in a case, I showed it by the use of dialyzing membranes.

From The Treasure-Train by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

This is the dialyzing vessel, and it is into this that the mixture of silicate and hydrochloric acid must be put.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux

Distilled water was placed on the reverse side of the dialyzing apparatus and the tests started.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

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