Multiple choice

Dialysis is used for the treatment of

  1. brain disease

  2. kidney failure

  3. heart weakness

  4. lung problems
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Explanation

In medicine, dialysis, meaning dissolution, (dia, meaning through, and lysis, meaning (loosening or splitting)) is a process for removing waste and excess water from the blood, and is used primarily to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function in people with renal failure. Dialysis may be used for those with an acute disturbance in kidney function (acute kidney injury, previously acute renal failure), or progressive but chronically worsening kidney function – a state known as chronic kidney disease.

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