The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perfuse \Per*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perfused; p. pr. &
vb. n. Perfusing.] [L. perfusus, p. p. of perfundere to
pour over; per + fundere to pour.]
To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
--Harvey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Latin perfusus, past participle of perfundere "to pour over, besprinkle," from per- + fundere (see found (v.2)).
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To permeate or suffuse something, either with a liquid or with light 2 (context transitive English) To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body
WordNet
v. force a fluid through (a body part or tissue); "perfuse a liver with a salt solution"
cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across; "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color" [syn: suffuse]
Usage examples of "perfuse".
The unit was a box-shaped device with its own fluidhandling and delivery system to continuously perfuse two dozen cell cultures and tissue specimens.
The next step was particularly critical: the placement of the arterial infusion cannula into the aorta to perfuse the coronary arteries.
Dutch landscape along a navigable river which perfuses it till to the background.
The point is you want to try to keep this limb perfused while you get the surgeons in to see whether or not they can reattach the limb.
The shock of psychic energy that annihilated the mind that had been Ethendor propagated back along the current perfusing it and out through the attached neural coupler into the brain of Eubeleus.
Higher life now emerged in the form of coelelminthes which perfused from the vesicles of the homunculolilium, or man-lily.
Dutch landscape along a navigable river which perfuses it till to the background.
Second, the three technicians from the Phoenix would have near perfect conditions under which to prepare the body, once legally dead, for immediate transport just nineteen miles southeast to the Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township, where it could be perfused, frozen, and moved to Arizona at everyone’s leisure.
He’d been anesthetized, perfused using a protocol formula obtained from the Phoenix, and maintained in liquid nitrogen in George Town, Grand Cayman, for twenty-two years.
Biotech matter is either contaminated by or purposely perfused with the bacterial cultures mentioned earlier.
I looked in to make sure she was not actually being perfused or catheterized or fed.
There were no noises except for the quiet whir of the pump perfusing the kidney on the table.