Artificial kidney
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An artificial kidney is the machine and its related devices which clean the blood of patients who have a temporary (acute) or an ongoing (chronic) failure of their kidneys. The procedure of cleaning the blood by this means is called hemodialysis.
Also see dialysis.
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