transfuse
See also: transfusé
English edit
Etymology edit
From trans- + fusus, past participle of fundō (“I pour, I melt”)
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transfuse (third-person singular simple present transfuses, present participle transfusing, simple past and past participle transfused)
- (transitive, medicine) To administer a transfusion of.
- 1952, Vincent Joseph Collins, Principles and Practice of Anesthesiology, page 461:
- A few years subsequent to his investigation, Richard Lower, also working on dogs, successfully tranfused the blood of one dog to that of another.
- (transitive) To pour liquid from one vessel into another.
- (transitive) To diffuse or permeate through something.
Translations edit
administer a transfusion
transfuse (all senses)
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transfuse
- inflection of transfuser:
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
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transfuse
- third-person singular past historic of transfondere
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Participle edit
transfuse f pl
Latin edit
Participle edit
trānsfūse