English |
clearance (en) |
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Attestation |
3
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Part of speech |
Noun
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Grammatical label |
Countable
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Definition |
Clearance is defined as the amount of solute removed (through a filter) from the blood per unit of time, divided by the incoming blood concentration *Clearance*. The solute transport characteristics of a dialyser may be expressed as clearance. This is a clinically meaningful measure since it describes the dialyser as a part of the patient´s circulatory system Clearance: Removal of a substance from the blood, e.g. by the kidney, expressed in terms of the millimetres of blood that would contain the amount of substance removed
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Definition source |
Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology Stedman´s Medical Dictionary
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Context |
Clearance can be used to describe the impact that the device exerts on the patient and, using kinetic modelling, to predict the time course of solute concentration in body compartments during the treatment
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Context source |
Artificial Organs (ingl 36)
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Synonym |
dialysance
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Subject field |
Dialysis
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Sub-field (level 2) |
Elimination of toxic substances
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Related concept |
mass transfer area coefficient, transmembrane pressure
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it |
clearance
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Reliability code |
3
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