autotransfusion
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Etymology edit
auto- + transfusion
Noun edit
autotransfusion (plural autotransfusions)
- (medicine) A blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood, extracted previously.
- 1877, Dr. L. Lesser, “Transfusion and Autotransfusion”, in Clinical Lectures on Subjects Connected with Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics:
- Strange to say, the method of autotransfusion, as it has been happily named by the French, has, notwithstanding its simplicity, failed to obtain in practice the reception it deserves.
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blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood
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