What does "dialysis" mean?

Dialysis: (Rhet.) Same as Asyndeton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Med.) (a) Debility. (b) A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.
  2. 3.(Chem.) The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.

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