artificial kidney (English, noun)
expansion: artificial kidney (plural artificial kidneys)
Senses:
glosses: A dialysis machine, an external device that cleans the blood of people with kidney failure; from the 1940s to the 2000s, not portable, but wearable versions now exist.
glosses: An implantable bionic device to replace the function of a natural kidney, long dreamed of but not yet feasible.
glosses: A bioengineered (laboratory-grown) biologic kidney (from cultured cells), still experimental.
Forms:
form: artificial kidneys
tags: plural