Autotransfusion
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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