Kidneys famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Caffeine dehydrates the body and speeds up the aging of the skin and kidneys.
-- Ann Louise Gittleman -
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.
-- Emmanuel des Essarts -
For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?
-- Eric Topol -
If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.
-- George Hook -
Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence.
-- Hari Sreenivasan -
There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.
-- Herbert M. Shelton -
Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.
-- Homer Smith -
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
-- James Joyce -
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.
-- John Perez -
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
-- Joseph Murray -
The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.
-- Karl Vogt -
Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.
-- Kate Walsh -
I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.
-- Liam Payne -
Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.
-- Neal Barnard -
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.
-- Primo Levi -
So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery
-- Robert Montgomery -
You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!
-- Sarah Hyland -
What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?
-- Scarlett Johansson -
I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.
-- Sean Elliott -
A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.
-- Sheri Fink -
My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
-- Wanda Sykes -
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
-- William Cobbett -
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
-- Xavier Becerra -
In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?
-- Conan O'Brien -
Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.
-- Mallory Ortberg -
Twelve people die every day because there aren't enough kidneys.
-- Sally Satel -
Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.
-- Sally Satel -
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
-- Roger Kahn -
There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.
-- John Roberts
