ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hemodialysis is a treatment to filter wastes and water from your blood, as your kidneys did when they were healthy. Hemodialysis helps control blood pressure and balance important minerals, such as potassium, sodium, and calcium, in your blood.

Detailed explanation-2: -The blood and dialysis fluid are separated only by a thin wall, called a semipermeable membrane. This membrane allows particles that the body needs to get rid of to pass through it, but doesn’t let important parts of the blood (e.g. blood cells) pass through.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dialysis is the process of removal of the excess waste material from blood. It the artifical process of filtering blood, which is done to remove the nitrogenous waste products that can result in toxicity inside the system.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dialysis involves the removal of solutes across a semipermeable membrane down the concentration gradient by two mechanisms: Diffusive clearance due to random molecular motion.

Detailed explanation-5: -An artificial kidney is a device that is used to remove nitrogenous wastes from the blood through dialysis. This device works from outside the body of the patient. It is similar to the function of the kidney except there is no reabsorption that occurs during this process.