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dialyze

Word definitions for dialyze in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dialyze \Di"a*lyze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dialyzed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dialyzing .] (Chem.) To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To subject something (or someone) to dialysis 2 (context intransitive English) To undergo dialysis vb. 1 (context transitive English) To subject something (or someone) to dialysis 2 (context intransitive English) To undergo ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. separate by dialysis [syn: dialyse ]

Usage examples of dialyze.

Forta learned how to dialyze him, so he could keep that aspect private.

The cellular water would dialyze into the blood and kill the creature by simple dehydration.

If mercury is found, the contents of the stomach may be dialyzed, the resulting clear fluid concentrated and shaken with ether, which has the power of taking corrosive sublimate up, and thus separating it from arsenic and other metallic poisons.

Suppose no mercury is found in the dialyzed fluid, owing to the fact that corrosive sublimate enters into insoluble compounds with albumin, fibrin, mucous membrane, gluten, tannic acid, etc.

Anyway, the other side of the membrane is continually washed with the dialyzing solution, which is in that full beaker there.

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

We're dialyzing her blood to keep any more from getting into her, hope it's not a waste of time.

My clearest memory of that approach is our arrival at the compact suite provided, where Forta dialyzed me.

I guess most of the toxins must have been dialyzed out of her blood by then.