Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of transfusing.
- noun Medicine The transfer of whole blood or blood products from one individual to another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of transfusing, or of pouring, as a liquid, out of one vessel into another; hence, in general, transmission; transference.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The
transfer ofblood or blood products from one individual to another. - noun The act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
- noun the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another
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Examples
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That's a lot of what I call a transfusion and Wigmore calls, far too politely, "remediation."
Wall Street Plays Uncle Sam Like A Fiddle In Matters Of Finance 2010
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My friend John and I have consulted, and we are about to perform what we call transfusion of blood, to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him.
Dracula 2003
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My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform what we call transfusion of blood -- to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him.
Dracula 1897
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My friend John and I have consulted, and we are about to perform what we call transfusion of blood, to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him.
Dracula Bram Stoker 1879
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Amongst the twins with twin-twin transfusion syndrome, the donor twin had mild oligohydramnios, a small bladder, marginal insertion of the umbilical cord into the placenta and an elevated umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry findings suggesting increased placental resistance to blood flow.
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The problem of twin-twin transfusion syndrome was initially identified at 15 weeks gestation as significant fetal size and amniotic fluid differences, but over the seven days prior to her referral, there was evidence of significant cardiac changes in the larger (recipient) twin.
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This transfusion is needed because: bad laws have obscured the values on financial institution balance sheets, and have created a clot in the credit arteries that keep the economy alive.
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A week later, the twin-twin transfusion findings were unchanged except for a significant increase in amniotic fluid volume around the recipient twin.
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Because of the progression of findings characteristic of twin-twin transfusion syndrome despite amnioreduction therapy, she was offered selective laser photocoagulation treatment.
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At the time of her evaluation for twin-twin transfusion with us, the recipient twin was found to have severe biventricular cardiac dysfunction, with moderate to severe leakage (regurgitation) across both mitral and tricuspid valves, severe pulmonic insufficiency with no forward flow across the pulmonary valve and reverse flow seen within the pulmonary artery.
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