dialyse
/ˈdʌɪəlʌɪz
/(US dialyze)
verb [with object]
1Purify (a mixture) by means of dialysis.The reaction mixtures were subsequently dialyzed against 100 mM ammonium acetate solution at pH 7.4 in the dark followed by lyophilization....
- The urine was dialyzed against deionized water in 6-8 kDa molecular weight cutoff dialysis tubing (Spectrapor, Spectrum Laboratories, Rancho Domingues, CA) and lyophilized.
- The purified protein was dialyzed into 20 mM ammonium bicarbonate and lyophilized.
1.1Treat (a patient) by means of dialysis.Somewhere around 1/4 of all of our patients are dialyzed that way....
- Humour, even during war, and illness, are not missing; nor is irony: the first patient to be successfully dialysed and live was a Quisling who had become ill in gaol after the Liberation.
- The morning after he's dialyzed, while still on subcutaneous heparin, he tells an alert resident about slight breathlessness.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from dialysis, on the pattern of analyse.
- in a class of its (or one's) own
- in action
- inaction
- inactivate
- inactivation
- inactivator
- inactive
- inactively
- inactivity
- in actual fact
- in addition
- in a delicate condition
- inadequacy
- inadequate
- inadequately
- inadmissibility
- inadmissible
- inadmissibly
- in advance
- in advance of
- inadvertence
- inadvertency
- inadvertent
- inadvertently
- inadvisability