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Transfuse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To pour (something) out of one vessel into another.

v. To cause to be instilled or imparted: transfused a love of learning to her children.

v. To diffuse through; permeate: a glade that was transfused with sunlight.

v. Medicine To administer a transfusion of or to.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To administer a transfusion.

v. To pour liquid from one vessel into another.

v. To diffuse or permeate through something.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.

v. To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another.

v. To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To pour out of one vessel into another; transfer by pouring.

In medicine, to transfer (blood) from the veins or arteries of one person to those of another, or from an animal to a person; also, to inject into a blood-vessel (other liquids, such as milk or saline solutions), with the view of replacing the bulk of fluid lost by hemorrhage or drained away in the discharges of cholera, etc.

To cause to pass from one to another; cause to be instilled or imbibed.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. pour out of one vessel into another

v. impart gradually

v. give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to

v. treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin

Word Usage

""We just don't have the answer to when is the right time to transfuse the patient or how low can you go with that hemoglobin," said Colleen Koch, cardiac surgery anesthesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic."

Verb Form

transfused transfuses transfusing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

pour dispense administer care for treat

Form

transfused transfusing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pour transfer inject

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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