DIALYZER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dialyzer mean? 

• DIALYZER (noun)
  The noun DIALYZER has 1 sense:

1. a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes

  Familiarity information: DIALYZER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIALYZER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dialysis machine; dialyzer

Hypernyms ("dialyzer" is a kind of...):

medical instrument (instrument used in the practice of medicine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dialyzer"):

artificial kidney; hemodialyzer (a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body)

Derivation:

dialyze (separate by dialysis)

 Context examples 

A symptom complex characterized by nervousness, chest pain, back pain, palpations, pruritus, and other usually mild symptoms occurring minutes following the initiation of dialysis with a new dialyzer.

(Dialyzer First Use Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)