| CCPD | Continous Cycling Peritoneal Dialysis |
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| IPD | Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis |
| PD | 1) Peritoneal Dialysis 2) Personality Disorder |
| APD | action potential duration; acute polycystic disease; advanced physical diagnosis; anteroposterior di... |
| CAPD | continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis |
| dialysis | <technique> The process of separating crystalloids and colloids in solution by the difference in their rates of diffusion through a semipermeable membrane, crystalloids pass through readily, colloids very slowly or not at all. <technique> A medical procedure that uses a machine to filter waste products from the bloodstream and restore the bloods normal constituents. A necessary form of treatment in the patient with end-stage renal disease. In most circumstances, kidney dialysis is administered in a fixed schedule of three times per week. See: haemodialysis. Origin: Gr. Lysis = dissolution (26 Nov 1998) |
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| dialysis dementia | A progressive (often fatal) diffuse encephalopathy which occurs in a few patients who undergo chronic haemodialysis, dementia is a key feature (27 Sep 1997) |
| dialysis disequilibrium syndrome | <syndrome> Nausea, vomiting, and hypertension, occasionally with convulsions, developing within several hours after starting haemodialysis for renal failure; apparently caused by too rapid removal of urea from the extracellular fluid compartment, with movement of water into cells, and cerebral oedema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dialysis encephalopathy syndrome | <syndrome> A progressive (often fatal) diffuse encephalopathy which occurs in a few patients who undergo chronic haemodialysis, dementia is a key feature (27 Sep 1997) |
| dialysis retinae | Congenital or traumatic separation of the peripheral sensory retina from the retinal pigment epithelium at the ora serrata, often causing a retinal detachment. Synonym: retinodialysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dialysis shunt | Arteriovenous shunt connecting the arterial and venous cannulas in arm or leg. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dialysis solutions | Solutions prepared for exchange across a semipermeable membrane of solutes below a molecular size determined by the cutoff threshold of the membrane material. (12 Dec 1998) |
| equilibrium dialysis | In immunology, a method for determination of association constants for hapten-antibody reactions in a system in which the hapten (dialyzable) and antibody (nondialyzable) solutions are separated by semipermeable membranes. Since at equilibrium the quantity of free hapten will be the same in the two compartments, quantitative determinations can be made of hapten-bound antibody, free antibody, and free hapten. (05 Mar 2000) |
| extracorporeal dialysis | Haemodialysis performed through an apparatus outside the body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kidney dialysis | <technique> The process of separating crystalloids and colloids in solution by the difference in their rates of diffusion through a semipermeable membrane, crystalloids pass through readily, colloids very slowly or not at all. <technique> A medical procedure that uses a machine to filter waste products from the bloodstream and restore the bloods normal constituents. A necessary form of treatment in the patient with end-stage renal disease. In most circumstances, kidney dialysis is administered in a fixed schedule of three times per week. See: haemodialysis. Origin: Gr. Lysis = dissolution (26 Nov 1998) |
| macrophages, peritoneal | Mononuclear phagocytes derived from bone marrow precursors but resident in the peritoneum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| panniculitis, peritoneal | Condition of the peritoneum, most commonly of the mesentery, but also of the omentum, characterised by tissue thickening, alteration of fat cells, infiltration of lipid-laden macrophages, and fibrosis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| greater peritoneal cavity | The space enclosed by the peritoneum. It is divided into two portions, the greater sac and the lesser sac or omental bursa, which lies behind the stomach. The two sacs are connected by the foramen of winslow, or epiploic foramen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| peritoneal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the peritoneum. Origin: Cf. F. Peritoneal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| peritoneal button | A device used to drain ascitic fluid to subcutaneous space. (05 Mar 2000) |