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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transfusion
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 and blood transfusion, failed, and Rash died of heart failure.
▪ Young pups may require a blood transfusion.
▪ During an effort to overcome one of those problems - a heart defect - surgeons gave the boy a blood transfusion.
▪ Thyroidectomy was performed without problem or need for blood transfusion.
▪ Janet's marrow sample was flown to Oslo and given to Mona in a blood transfusion.
▪ The blood transfusion requirements were similar in both groups.
▪ The blood transfusion brought colour to my face and I am deeply indebted to some anonymous donor.
■ VERB
receive
▪ While you are reading this appeal, a patient will be receiving a transfusion to save his or her life.
▪ Thereupon Miss T. received a transfusion of blood or plasma, it matters not which.
▪ She said it was highly possible that had he received a blood transfusion his life might have been saved.
▪ Luckily for Mr Holman, he received the transfusion before the parasitical cells had a chance to multiply.
require
▪ This patient did not require blood transfusion or any other active treatment.
▪ Young pups may require a blood transfusion.
▪ For those not requiring red cell transfusion there was no difference in packed cell volume between the groups at 1 month.
▪ He was told that Miss T. did not require a blood transfusion and that there was no need for concern.
▪ He had lost blood during the operation and had required a replacement transfusion of 4 units of blood.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She received three blood transfusions before the bleeding stopped.
▪ The mayor has promised a transfusion of $8 million in redevelopment funds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both groups received a similar volume of blood transfusion.
▪ Every 3 weeks her baby needs a blood transfusion.
▪ For those not requiring red cell transfusion there was no difference in packed cell volume between the groups at 1 month.
▪ I was to have a blood transfusion before he could operate.
▪ Janet's marrow sample was flown to Oslo and given to Mona in a blood transfusion.
▪ Over the next two weeks he made a slow clinical improvement and required blood transfusion and intravenous nutrition.
▪ Thyroidectomy was performed without problem or need for blood transfusion.
▪ Treatments, including dialysis and blood transfusion, failed, and Rash died of heart failure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transfusion

Transfusion \Trans*fu"sion\, n. [L. transfusio: cf. F. transfusion.]

  1. The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.
    --Howell.

  2. (Med.) The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or animal into the vascular system of another; also, the introduction of any fluid into the blood vessels, or into a cavity of the body from which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the peritoneal transfusion of milk.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transfusion

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 one container to another" (see transfuse). Sense of "transfering of blood from one individual to another" first recorded 1640s.

Wiktionary
transfusion

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.

WordNet
transfusion
  1. n. the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery [syn: blood transfusion]

  2. the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another

Wikipedia
Transfusion (short story)

Transfusion is a science fiction short story by Chad Oliver, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in June, 1959. Like many of his stories, it puts the author's own profession of anthropology into a science fiction context. In this case, the addition of time travel theoretically enables the scientists to observe primitive humans in the past. The results, however, are unexpected.

Transfusion

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 topics published by the AABB
  • "Transfusion" (song), a 1956 novelty hit by Nervous Norvus
  • Transfusion, a 2005 album by Cold Blood (band)
  • "Transfusion" (short story), a 1959 science fiction story by Chad Oliver
  • Transfusion, a port of the Blood video game to the Quake engine
Transfusion (EP)

Transfusion is the second EP by the Australian rock group Powderfinger. It was released on 27 September 1993 by Polydor. The album was the group's first recording with Polydor, as the group had signed with the label due to the success of the previous EP by the band, Powderfinger.

The song "Reap What You Sow" is the first song by Powderfinger to have a music video. The EP received minor chart success, though not achieving a mainstream ARIA Singles Chart position. It reached the #1 position on the ARIA Alternative Chart, taking the place of Nirvana's single " Heart Shaped Box".

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.