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twinning (iou) and Dialysis (medicine)


twinning (iou)



twinning noun. ME.
[from TWIN verb + -ING1.]
Parting, separation. Scot. ME-L16.
Giving birth to two children or animals at a birth; the bearing of twins. L16.
Coupling, close union or combination; spec. (a) Crystallography the union of two crystals to form a twin (TWIN noun 5); (b) the official linking of one town or city with or with another, esp. in a different country, for the purposes of friendship and cultural exchange. M19.

Dialysis (medicine)


dialysis
<technique> The process of separating crystalloids and colloids in solution by the difference in their rates of diffusion through a semipermeable membrane, crystalloids pass through readily, colloids very slowly or not at all.

<technique> A medical procedure that uses a machine to filter waste products from the bloodstream and restore the bloods normal constituents.

A necessary form of treatment in the patient with end-stage renal disease. In most circumstances, kidney dialysis is administered in a fixed schedule of three times per week.

See: haemodialysis.

Origin: Gr. Lysis = dissolution