dialysis

Dated in the late 16th century CE; from Ancient Greek διά (diá, “inter-, through”) and λύειν (lúein, “loosen”); synchronically, dia- +‎ -lysis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪˈælɪsɪs/

dialysis (countable and uncountable, plural dialyses)

1. (chemistry) A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.
2. (medicine) Utilization of this method for removal of waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure: hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

3. (rhetoric) The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion.
4. (rhetoric) Asyndeton.

• “dialysis” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• Silva Rhetoricae

From Ancient Greek διάλυσις (diálusis).

dialysis f (genitive dialysis); third declension

1. separation

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

• dialysis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press