dialysance

The number of milliliters of blood completely cleared of any substance by an artificial kidney or by peritoneal dialysis in a unit of time; conventional clearance formulas are expressed as mm/min. [fr. dialysis]

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di·al·y·sance dī-'al-ə-sən(t)s n blood volume in milliliters per unit time cleared of a substance by dialysis (as by an artificial kidney)

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di·al·y·sance (di-alґə-səns) [dialysis + -ance suffix denoting action or process] the minute rate of net exchange of a substance between blood and bath fluid, per unit blood-bath concentration gradient; a parameter in artificial kidney kinetics (nonfiltration) functionally equivalent to the renal clearance (q.v.) of the natural kidney.