Perfusionist
//pə(ɹ)ˈfjuːʒənɪst// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A trained clinician who operates the heart-lung machine during cardiac and other surgeries.
"The doctors were joined several hours later by two perfusionists, Richard Chenault II and Richard Lapensee, and all four sped to Willow Run Airport, a cargo terminal in Ypsilanti, Mich., about 15 miles east of the hospital."
Example
More examples"The doctors were joined several hours later by two perfusionists, Richard Chenault II and Richard Lapensee, and all four sped to Willow Run Airport, a cargo terminal in Ypsilanti, Mich., about 15 miles east of the hospital."
Etymology
From perfusion + -ist.
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