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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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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

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

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

Emergency patients only get dialyzed on average once per week.

From Washington Times Jun. 20, 2016

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

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

From Forbes Oct. 25, 2014

The proteins are all colloidal in character, that is, they form solutions in water, out of which they cannot be dialyzed through parchment, or other similar membranes.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred

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 Arnoux, L.

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 Arnoux, L.

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

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

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

From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.

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