Talk:Clearance (medicine)

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To be precise, isn't what this article refers to actually the clearance rate? While clearance itself actually refers to the process not the rate. honeydew 10:05, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

The term clearance has a general and a specific meaning. In general, clearance refers to the removal of substances from the body. But in renal physiology, clearance specifically refers to the volume of plasma per unit time that is cleared of a particular substance. You're right that it is a rate, but that's just assumed when you say renal clearance. It might be tempting to move this article to clearance rate (medicine) or something similar, except that few (if any) in medicine call it clearance rate -- it's just renal clearance. That's not to say this article shouldn't discuss the general term, though. --David Iberri (talk) 21:22, 4 March 2006 (UTC)