Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In biology, noting an evolutionary stage or condition in which the divergent characters of inbred varieties do not combine or average in the hybrids but follow one or the other of the parental lines, as discovered by Mendel. Compare catalytic, 2, *hemilytic, and *prostholytic.
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of dialysis, in any sense of that word.
  • In medicine, unloosing; unbracing, as the fibers; relaxing.
  • In mathematics, pertaining to the process of differentiating equations successively until the different powers of the unknown quantities can be regarded as independent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the quality of unloosing or separating.
  • adjective an achromatic telescope in which the colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to dialysis.

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Examples

  • Iatrogenic factors were another aspect impacting the gastrointestinal symptoms in peritoneal dialysis patients, including the pre-dialytic therapy and adjuvant therapy during peritoneal dialysis.

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  • The objective of RENAL DISCOVERIES, The Baxter Extramural Grant Program is to stimulate and support research in the fields of dialytic therapies, chronic kidney disease, and co-morbidities associated with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), with the goal of improving the quality of life and reducing mortality of patients with kidney disease.

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  • Patients are now freed from dialytic regimes, freed from stringent dietary and fluid constraints, and freed from being bounded to a geographical locality. "

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  • Patients are now freed from dialytic regimes, freed from stringent dietary and fluid constraints, and freed from being bounded to a geographical locality. "

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