Transfusion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of transfusing.
  • n. Medicine The transfer of whole blood or blood products from one individual to another.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another.
  • n. The act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of transfusing, or of pouring, as a liquid, out of one vessel into another; hence, in general, transmission; transference.
  • n. In medicine, the transmission of blood from one living animal to another, or from a human being or one of the lower animals into a human being, with the view of restoring the vigor of exhausted subjects or of replacing the blood lost by hemorrhage; also, the intravenous injection of other liquids, such as milk or saline solutions, in order to restore the circulating fluid to its normal volume, as after severe hemorrhage.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
  • n. the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another
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