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
  • Her 48-year-old patient had skipped the dialysis that kept him alive.
    Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Hugh was on dialysis and badly in need of a transplant.
    Usa Today Network Ventures Staff, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The woman had come to Centerpoint to get a new port for her dialysis.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2024
  • 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 girl was one of five children in the dialysis department at the moment of the attack on July 8.
    Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 26 July 2024
  • Gaither goes for dialysis at least three times a week on Brentwood Road in northeast D.C.
    Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Josh’s right lung collapsed, his kidneys failed and he was put on dialysis.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Three-times-a-week dialysis treatments can only sustain the 53-year-old for so long.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Both needed dialysis to clear the fluid that was clogging their lungs.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • In August 2020 Collins had to start emergency dialysis three days a week for four hours.
    Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2021
  • People who need a heart are on death's door where people who need a kidney have been kept alive via dialysis.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Massa learned that the woman in need was a Temecula mom in her early ‘60s who had been on dialysis for a year.
    Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • In some situations, this could be as early as the first month of dialysis.
    Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • 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
  • The team saw little hope for one patient and selected the other to start dialysis.
    Dan Frosch, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Five years ago, an illness put him on dialysis; three years ago, one landed him in the hospital for two weeks.
    Monica Potts, The New Republic, 17 June 2021
  • 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 plant is also the largest U.S. supplier of intravenous and peritoneal dialysis solutions.
    Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
  • For this reason, people who already have chronic kidney disease but aren’t on dialysis are often advised to keep their protein intake relatively low.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Sep. 2024

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