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- verb Present participle of
transfuse .
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Examples
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Surgical Errors: Surgical complications range from known risks to avoidable mistakes, such as transfusing the wrong blood type or administering an incorrect amount of anesthesia.
Patient Protection 2008
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One has to balance the risk of shortages against the risk of causing serious illness by transfusing blood bearing an infection.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
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Finnish runners were suspected of transfusing their own red blood cells right before the 1972 and 1976 Olympic distance races.
Scary Smart: The Next Trillion-Dollar Industry Rich Karlgaard 2010
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I mean, in all of the Tours I did exactly the same amount of blood (transfusing) except the first one (2002); the first one I did one transfusion which is 500 millilitres and the next four I did 1000 militaries each, three separate times in 2006, because it was easier to maintain the continuous blood parameters that were being checked.
Complete transcript: Paul Kimmage’s interview of Floyd Landis 2011
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In the 1960s, he conducted experiments transfusing the blood of cadavers into living patients.
Pathologist Led One-Man Crusade for Euthanasia Stephen Miller 2011
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Contador has vehemently denied transfusing his own blood and says the minute traces of clenbuterol found in his system during the Tour came from eating contaminated meat originating in Spain.
Alberto Contador won’t attend Tour de France presentation 2010
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On and up, to the sprouting beard of growing crest, the colour orgy increased until it was a kaleidoscopic effervescence of transfusing rainbows.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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The process, known as interoperative cell salvage, avoids some of the risks of transfusing blood from a stranger, including allergic reactions and infectious diseases.
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One has to balance the risk of shortages against the risk of causing serious illness by transfusing blood bearing an infection.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
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Artificially transfusing additional red blood cells before a race is called blood packing and is illegal, but anyone who trains in Kenya has the same advantage without having to do anything extra.
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Speculating About Neanderthals and Humans 2010
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