Dialysis

From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Jump to: navigation, search


This article is a stub and thus not approved.
Main Article
Talk
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
 
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Dialysis&printable=yes
This is a draft article, under development and not meant to be cited but you can help to improve it. These unapproved articles are subject to a disclaimer.

In biology and medicine, dialysis is a "process of selective diffusion through a membrane. It is usually used to separate low-molecular-weight solutes which diffuse through the membrane from the colloidal and high-molecular-weight solutes which do not."[1]

Dialysis is the basis of renal dialysis which is a renal replacement therapy for acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.

References

  1. ↑ Anonymous, (2009) Dialysis (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Retrieved from "http://locke.citizendium.org/wiki/Dialysis"
Views
Personal tools