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Haemodialysis

Definition: Haemodialysis

Haemodialysis

Noun

1. Dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Haemodialysis

DomainDefinitions

Health

The removal of certain elements from the blood by virtue of the difference in the rates of their diffusion through a semipermeable membrane, e.g., by means of a haemodialyzer. (references)

Public Administration

Treatment intended to correct disturbances of or clear toxic accumulation in a patient's blood by means of circulating it outside the body(extracorporeal)through specialized equipment called a haemodialyser or artificial kidney; in accidents, very useful for crush syndrome. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonym: Haemodialysis

Synonym: hemodialysis (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Haemodialysis

DomainTitle

Books

  • A study of patients on chronic haemodialysis : a sociomedical investigation of the experiences of patients on haemodialysis and their quality of life (reference)

  • Aluminum and Iron Overload in Haemodialysis (reference)

  • Haemodialysis & Oxidant Stress (Reprint of Blood Purification Ser. 17) (reference)

  • Haemodialysis (New Clinical Applications. Nephrology) (reference)

  • Surgical Aspects of Haemodialysis (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Haemodialysis

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Malaysia

There is an increasing demand for haemodialysis treatment, organ transplants, microsurgery, and corrective surgery for congenital disorders. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Haemodialysis

"Haemodialysis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Haemodialysis" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%12101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Haemodialysis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

haemodialysis

2
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Modern Translations: Haemodialysis

Language Translations for "haemodialysis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

haemodialyseapparat, haemodialyse, hæmodialyse, hæmodialyse, kunstig nyre (artificial kidney, haemodialyzer, kidney dialysis machine), dialyse (dialysis, kidney dialysis, renal dialysis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hemodialyse. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hemodialyysi. (various references)

   

French

  

hémodialyseur, hémodialyse. (various references)

   

German

  

Haemodialyse, Hämodyalisator, Hämodialyse, Hämodialyse, Blutwäsche (kidney dialysis, renal dialysis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αιμοκάθαρση,αιμοδιαπήδηση, αιμοδιύλιση, αιμοδιάλυση. (various references)

   

Italian

  

emodialisi (hemodialysis, kidney dialysis, renal dialysis). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aemodialysishay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

hemodiálise, hemodiálise. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hemodiálisis (hemodialysis). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hemodialys. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

гемодіаліз (hemodialysis). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Haemodialysis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-i-l-m-o-s-s-y"

-1 letter: hemodialysis.

-4 letters: ashamedly, halidomes, headsails, hemiolias, hemolysis, idealisms, semisolid.

-5 letters: alamodes, amidases, amylases, amyloids, amyloses, assailed, assoiled, damosels, demolish, dialyses, dialysis, dishelms, halidome, halidoms, headsail, hemiolas, hemiolia, holidays, homilies, hyaloids, idealism, idolises, idolisms, isoleads, lehayims, maladies, malaises, massedly, melodias, midsoles, miladies, misdeals, misdials, misleads, modishly, samoyeds, sashayed, sesamoid, shamoyed.

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Alternative Orthography: Haemodialysis


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0065 006D 006F 0064 0069 0061 006C 0079 0073 0069 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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