Multiple choice

Dialysis is used for the treatment of

  1. Brain disease

  2. Kidney failure

  3. Heart weakness

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
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.[1] 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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