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  • noun Plural form of transfusion.

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Examples

  • The results led to an immediate reduction in transfusions at the clinic, she said.

    An Overused Step in Heart Surgery Ron Winslow 2010

  • The detection of homologous transfusions is possible "weeks and months" after the fact, Ljungqvist said.

    USATODAY.com - No evidence of doping detected in Austrian skiers 2006

  • Two other people, one of them a U-V-A patient, came down with fevers after recent transfusions from the same supply.

    VBS Source of Tainted Blood at cvillenews.com 2002

  • Since the age of Chaucer, at least, that is for more than 400 years, our language has been increased by continual transfusions from the French.

    Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

  • Therefore, in their analysis, Hankins and her colleagues compared biopsy and MRI iron level measurements in 43 St. Jude patients who had been receiving long-term transfusions for sickle cell anemia, beta-thalassemia and bone marrow failure.

    unknown title 2009

  • While I know 25 years ago, people were infected because of blood transfusions, that is not the case today.

    Police: 26 arrested in AIDS protest at Capitol 2009

  • Bethany, her mother and two sisters argued for the right to refuse the blood as dictated by the Witness faith, but the courts ruled that the transfusions were the girl’s only real hope.

    Jehovah’s Witness teen lived life on her own terms, until her dying day 2002

  • However, it seems that Ballmer's "transfusions" worked out pretty well, since rumors have started to abound regarding the imminent official launch of this future OS, as well as the improvements it will bring to the smartphone environment.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • I have been totally wearing myself out daily and these nice "transfusions" of hot chocolate and macarons are no longer doing the trick.

    paris breakfasts 2009

  • The first attested use of the phrase blood bank dates from 1938, when it was used to describe stores of human blood available for emergency transfusions at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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