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Pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels)
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perfusion
Word definitions for perfusion in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perfusion \Per*fu"sion\, n. [L. perfusio.] The act of perfusing.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Perfusion is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Cardiology . The journal's editor is Prakash P. Punjabi ( Hammersmith Hospital ). It has been in publication since 1986 and is currently published by SAGE Publications .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of perfuse 2 (context medicine English) The introduction of a drug or nutrients through the bloodstream in order to reach an internal organ or tissues.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Middle French perfusion and directly from Latin perfusionem (nominative perfusio ) "a pouring over," noun of action from past participle stem of perfundere "pour out," from per- "throughout" (see per ) + fundere "pour" (see found (v.2)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels)
Usage examples of perfusion.
Murder most foul, alarums and excursions, theft, buggery, barratry, incomplete perfusion!
Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, leading to insufficient perfusion of vital organs?
He ices the abdominal cavities of the corpses to thirty-two degrees centigrade until he can get the body onto the perfusion machine.
There were rumors, too, that he had made or grown chimeras of children and beasts, and that he had kidnapped a child from one of the hill tribes and used its blood and perfusions of its organs to treat one of the members of the Council for Night and Shrines.
A few of the technical terms sounded familiar, BP and cardiac function and perfusion.