dialysis: [16] As in the case of its close relative analysis, the underlying etymological notion contained in dialysis is of undoing or loosening, so that the component parts are separated. The word comes ultimately from Greek diálusis, a derivative of dialúein ‘tear apart’; this was a compound verb formed from the prefix dia- ‘apart’ and lúein ‘loosen, free’ (related to English less, loose, lose, and loss).
In Greek it meant simply ‘separation’, but it was borrowed into English, via Latin dialysis, as a rhetorical term denoting a set of propositions without a connecting conjunction. The chemical sense, ‘separation of molecules or particles’ (from which the modern application to ‘renal dialysis’ comes), was introduced in the 1860s by the chemist Thomas Graham (1805–69). => analysis, less, loose, lose, loss
dialysis (n.)
1580s, from Latin, from Greek dialysis "dissolution, separation" (of the disbanding of troops, a divorce, etc.), from dialyein "dissolve, separate," from dia- "apart" + lyein "loosen" (see lose). Used originally in logic and grammar; chemistry sense is first recorded 1861, medicine 1914. Related: Dialytic.
雙語例句
1. I was on dialysis for seven years before my first transplant.
在進行首次腎移植之前，我做了7年的透析。
來自柯林斯例句
2. One of the oldest method of salt removal is dialysis.
透析是最古老的去鹽方法之一.
來自辭典例句
3. After dialysis and lyophilization , it can be detected by immunological methods.
經過透析和冷凍幹燥 、 可用免疫學方法測算.
來自辭典例句
4. The dialysis principle can be used for demineralization of brackish water.
滲析原理的應用是除半鹹水中的鹽.
來自辭典例句
5. The agglutinating activity of DPL vanished after demetalization by dialysis against EDTA.