A patient has end-stage renal failure. Several times a week, he must come to the clinic for a procedure where blood is pushed through a permeable membrane to remove wastes and excess ions. The name of this procedure is:
A) urinalysis.
B) enuresis.
C) hemodialysis.
D) lithotripsy.

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The procedure described is hemodialysis, which involves pushing the patient's blood through a permeable membrane to remove wastes and excess ions. Urinalysis involves testing a patient's urine, enuresis is involuntary urination, and lithotripsy is a procedure to break up kidney stones.

A Patient Has End-Stage Renal Failure