| ECIB | extracorporeal irradiation of blood |
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| ECIL | extracorporeal irradiation of lymph |
| ECMO | enteric cytopathic monkey orphan [virus]; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation |
| ECV | epithelial cell vacuolization; extracellular volume; extracorporeal volume |
| ELS | Eaton-Lambert syndrome; electron loss spectroscopy; extended least square; extracorporeal life suppo... |
| 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) |
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| 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) |