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Dialysis fluid contains all the constitu...

Dialysis fluid contains all the constituents as in plasma except ________.

A

high glucose

B

high urea

C

no urea

D

high uric acid

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C
Artifical kidney, called dialysing unit, is a machine that is used to filter the blood of a person whose kidneys are damaged. The process is called haemodialysis. Dialysing unit is a cellophane tube suspended in a salt-water solution of the same composition as the normal blood plasma, except that no urea is present. blood of the patient is pumped from one of the arteries into the cellophane tube. pores of the cellophane tube allow area uric acid, creatinine, excess salts and excess `H^(+)` ions to diffuse from the blood into a vein of the patient
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