How to Use dialysis in a Sentence

dialysis

noun
  • The surgery was needed to insert a catheter in his neck for dialysis.
    Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The 60-year-old has also been on dialysis for six years.
    Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Okojie said some players went to the ICU and that some were on dialysis.
    Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • His nights at the club were replaced with four-hour-long days of dialysis treatments three times per week.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • His wife cheered him on and helped him while on dialysis, along with his sister and daughters.
    Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 4 July 2022
  • John was on dialysis at the time, and would receive treatment three times a week for at least three hours at a time, the GoFundMe page says.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The Wales resident started dialysis and was put on a transplant list, but by June 2021, there still wasn't a match.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The parent of a Heath player who was hospitalized said that some players went to the ICU and that some were on dialysis.
    Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
  • The dialysis industry had to spend more than $80 million to defeat it.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Murray: And these people come to you for the dialysis process on a regular basis.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • Once on dialysis, around half of patients die within five years.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The boy vomited every day while on dialysis and has yet to eat solid food by mouth.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2023
  • He was hooked up to a dialysis machine prior to his death, Rodney Wells, Nichols' step father, said.
    Lucas Finton, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Moving out of the area, his mother said, would disrupt Pascual’s dialysis treatment and put his life at risk.
    New York Times, 31 July 2022
  • The day before, doctors said his kidneys were working and that were going to take him off dialysis, which was a godsend.
    jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • If a pig kidney fails, the patient can always survive on dialysis.
    Arkansas Online, 13 July 2022
  • McDougall continued with dialysis for about five hours, three days a week.
    Brittany McGee, ajc, 7 May 2022
  • But Black people and Latinos who are on dialysis are less likely to be put on transplant lists and less likely to have transplants.
    Sheryl Gay Stolberg, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Investors were eager to help the two doctors set up dialysis centers that could have cashed in on the technology.
    James R. Hagerty, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • When the kidneys stop working, people need to go on a dialysis machine to remove excess fluids and water from the blood.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the last couple years of his life, Hank Goldberg occasionally would call when hooked up to a dialysis machine.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2022
  • In June 2020, the Suttons were told Jax would need daily dialysis — but it could be administered by them at their Noblesville home.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Oh, yeah, and Berkshire Hathaway (#7) has one of its largest investments in DaVita, which is the leader in kidney dialysis.
    Jackson Fordyce, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Calixto is completely off dialysis for the first time in two years and is expected to make a full recovery in about six months.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 18 June 2023
  • Towards the end of Harris' first year on dialysis, doctors approached her family with the idea of a transplant and if anyone in the family could be a match.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • DaVita’s stock soared last week after the dialysis chain blew the doors off profit expectations.
    Bob Herman Reprints, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The operation would end more than two years of keeping Jax alive and active with daily at-home dialysis treatments.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Many patients who rely on dialysis have low incomes, and some, like Jorge Delfin, 32, lack health insurance.
    Neelam Bohra, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Over the past eight years, Rios battled kidney failure with thrice-weekly dialysis treatments.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Amid the dull hum of the dialysis machines, Halytska recalled the time last month when Russian strikes hit nearby during her treatment.
    Fox News, 10 Nov. 2022

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