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The introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
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transfusion
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Transfusion may refer to: Blood transfusion , the introduction of blood directly into an individual’s blood circulation through a vein Transfusion (EP) , a 1993 EP by Powderfinger Transfusion (journal) , a research journal on blood transfusion and related ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another. 2 The act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transfusion \Trans*fu"sion\, n. [L. transfusio: cf. F. transfusion.] The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another. --Howell. (Med.) The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or animal into the vascular system ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a blood transfusion (= putting more blood in someone's body for medical reasons ) blood transfusion COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN blood ▪ Every 3 weeks her baby needs a blood transfusion . ▪ Treatments, including dialysis ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "action of pouring liquid from one vessel to another," from Middle French transfusion and directly from Latin transfusionem (nominative transfusio ) "a decanting, intermingling," noun of action from past participle stem of transfundere "pour from ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery [syn: blood transfusion ] the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another
Usage examples of transfusion.
Three of them were cut pretty badly and needed whole blood transfusions, but the rest were patched up with bandages and Mercurochrome and hauled off in a police van.
Henry had had two platelet and two red-cell transfusions in the past two months, and he had been on Anadrol, a steriod to boost his blood counts, for two and a half years.
Hermippus redivivus, I am quite restored by him, by transfusion of mind.
It had taken the doctors two hours to stop the bleeding, suture and reinflate the collapsed lung and begin the first of many transfusions.
This is not the dissolution of the Cartesian ego, but its hyperinflation to cosmic proportions: a temporary transfusion of higher domains has empowered a monster.
I had my fourth transfusion scheduled at Moffett, the hematology unit, at five-thirty.
Acute lymphocytic leukemia was one of the most common forms of cancer they dealt with, and also one that frequently demanded blood transfusions.
I think Lady Cres swell is safely through her relapse, but the transfusion must continue for the rest of the day and I will do a blood count when I come back.
I can teach you about transfusion, and maybe we can rig up a sort of crossmatch that would work back in 1845.
I could see that, despite the transfusion, his skin had gray undertones, and the smudges beneath his pale brows made his eyes appear to recede.
South American Incas regularly carried out blood transfusions with far more primitive instruments than we have, and, so history informs us, most occasions proved successful.
Europe in the seventeenth century because of the many deaths transfusions caused.
Even if the transfusions did work, you could only save a handful of your people.
The notebooks reveal he starts to age if he neglects the transfusions, although the process is partially reversible if caught in time.
Up to thirty percent of patients respond to a regimen of biweekly transfusions of packed red blood cells.