3. (Med.) (a) Debility. (b) A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.
4. (Chem.) The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.
Di`a*lyt"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;. See Dialysis.] Having the quality of unloosing or separating. Clarke.
Dialytic telescope, an achromatic telescope in which the colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.
Di*al"y*zate (?), n. (Chem.) The material subjected to dialysis.
Di`a*ly*za"tion (?), n. (Chem.) The act or process of dialysis.
Di"a*lyze (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dialyzed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dialyzing.] (Chem.) To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis. [Written also dialyse.]
Di"a*lyzed (?), a. Prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; as, dialyzed iron.
Di"a*ly`zer (?), n. The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis.
Di`a*mag"net (?), n. [Pref. dia- + magnet.] A body having diamagnetic polarity.
Di`a*mag*net"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic.
Diamagnetic attraction. See under Attraction.
Di`a*mag*net"ic, n. Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet.
Di`a*mag*net"ic*al*ly (?), adv. In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism.
Di`a*mag"net*ism (?), n. 1. The science which treats of diamagnetic phenomena, and of the properties of diamagnetic bodies.