GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hemodialysis uses a machine to pull blood out of the body, filter it, and pump the clean blood back into the body again. The actual filtering happens in a part of the machine called a dialyzer, or artificial kidney. The dialyzer has two parts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hemodialysis is a process by which wastes from the body is removed by using an artificial kidney. A series of semi permeable membrane is placed in a dialysis solution to pump out the wastes and purified blood is pumped back into the body.

Detailed explanation-3: -The dialyzer is the key to hemodialysis. The dialyzer is called the artificial kidney because it filters the blood-a job the kidneys used to do.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.