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Transfuse

//tɹænsˈfjuːz// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To administer a transfusion of. transitive

    "A few years subsequent to his investigation, Richard Lower, also working on dogs, successfully tranfused the blood of one dog to that of another."

  2. 2
    give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to wordnet
  3. 3
    To pour liquid from one vessel into another. transitive
  4. 4
    treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin wordnet
  5. 5
    To diffuse or permeate through something. transitive
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  1. 6
    pour out of one vessel into another wordnet
  2. 7
    impart gradually wordnet

Etymology

From trans- + fusus, past participle of fundō (“I pour, I melt”). By surface analysis, trans- + fuse.

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