artificial kidney
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.82 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
An implantable bionic device to replace the function of a natural kidney, long dreamed of but not yet feasible.
noun
A bioengineered (laboratory-grown) biologic kidney (from cultured cells), still experimental.
Example Sentences
- "An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine."
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
kidney transplant