Usually means: Devices that mimic kidney functions.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (artificial kidney)

noun:  A dialysis machine, an external device that cleans the blood of people with kidney failure; from the 1940s to the 2000s, not portable, but wearable versions now exist.
noun:  An implantable bionic device to replace the function of a natural kidney, long dreamed of but not yet feasible.
noun:  A bioengineered (laboratory-grown) biologic kidney (from cultured cells), still experimental.
▸ Also see artificial_kidney


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