NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -During hemodialysis, your blood goes through a filter, called a dialyzer, outside your body. A dialyzer is sometimes called an “artificial kidney.”

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The dialyzer is called the artificial kidney because it filters the blood-a job the kidneys used to do. The dialyzer is a hollow plastic tube about a foot long and three inches in diameter that contains many tiny filters.

Detailed explanation-4: -An artificial kidney is a device to remove nitrogenous waste products from the blood through dialysis. Artificial kidneys contain a number of tubes with a semi-permeable lining, suspended in a tank filled with dialysing fluid.

Detailed explanation-5: -The cellophane tube in dialyzing tube acts as a semipermeable membrane that allows nitrogenous waste to pass through the tube into the dialyzing fluid. Thus, clearing of the blood takes place. This blood is pumped back into the patient body. Thus, a hemodialyzer act as an artificial kidney.