(v. t.) To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.
(v. t.) To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another.
(v. t.) To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient recovered completely following discontinuation of antibiotics, transfusion of red blood cells, and treatment with glucocorticoids.
(2) The influence of blood and blood-product therapy was studied in two groups of children: 1) 90 children who had exchange transfusion after birth because of serologic incompatibility (aged 5 months to 5 years).
(3) Both buffy coat and platelet transfusions evoked production of the non-specific blocking antibodies.
(4) This suggests that both blood transfusion and allograft are required for IL2 suppression and that this suppression may be related to the heart tolerance.
(5) He received blood transfusions every 2 or 3 weeks for the first 4 years of his life.
(6) Advances in blood banking and the availability of platelet transfusions have markedly decreased the incidence of fatal haemorrhage.
(7) The relationship between EPO concentration and the changes in Hct during the observation period did not differ between the non-transfusion group and transfusion group.
(8) A control group of five patients matched for age, transfusion dependence and sensitization status demonstrated no change during a comparable time interval.
(9) Use of blood and blood products increased annually as did the number of patients crossmatched and transfused.
(10) Early initiation of adequate antibiotic therapy, as well as symptomatic treatment using transfusion, steroids and anticonvulsants, are important.
(11) Treatment with chloroquine and primaquine, together with packed red cell transfusions, was successful in eliminating both the malaria parasites and the leukaemoid blood picture.
(12) An epidemiologic background appropriate to "serum" hepatitis, either transfusion (one bout) or illicit self-injection (46 bouts), was associated just as frequently with serologically non-B episodes as with identified type B disease.
(13) Of 145 consecutive hospitalized AIDS patients (CDC criteria), 34 (23%) presented with anemia requiring transfusion.
(14) Blood transfusion per se was not significant (p = 0.07).
(15) In recent years, apart from these well known risks, the immuno-suppressive effect of blood transfusions has been observed and thereby the possible adverse influence on the prognosis in cases of malignant disease.
(16) This instrument is valuable for use with intravascular fetal transfusions.
(17) The potassium load of transfused blood must be minimized.
(18) To determine whether perioperative blood transfusion affected the recurrence rate of squamous cell cancer of the head and neck, we performed a retrospective study of all patients with stage III and IV disease treated surgically at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, between 1983 and 1986.
(19) PMN-related transcellular eicosanoid synthesis may be involved in the pathogenesis of transfusion-evoked acute lung injury.
(20) A patient who had received multiple transfusions for complications of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis developed a potent factor V anticoagulant with bleeding due to defective hemostasis.