A wearable artificial kidney is a wearable dialysis machine that a person with end-stage renal disease could use daily or even continuously. As of November 2008, no wearable kidney is widely available, but many research teams are in the process of developing such devices (see below).
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“For, as it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God, that makes things ugly, the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole,—re-attaching even artificial things, and violations of nature, to nature, by a deeper insight,—disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.”
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