Autotransfusion

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood, extracted previously.

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From auto- + transfusion.

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