autotransfusion

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ transfusion.

Noun

autotransfusion (plural autotransfusions)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• autotransfusionist

 

Related terms

• autotransfuse

Translations

blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: oman veren siirto, omaverensiirto, autotransfuusio
• French: autotransfusion (fr) f, auto-transfusion (fr) f
• German: Autotransfusion (de) f
• Greek: αυτομετάγγιση (el) f (aftometángisi)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: autotrasfusione f
• Japanese: 自己血輸血 (jikoketsuyuketsu)
• Korean: 자가수혈 (jagasuhyeol)
• Polish: autotransfuzja f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can