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perfusate

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[per-fyoo-zayt, -zit] / pərˈfju zeɪt, -zɪt /

noun

Medicine/Medical, Surgery.
  1. a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.


Etymology

Origin of perfusate

1910–15; perfuse + -ate 1, probably on the model of filtrate, precipitate


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Why didn’t you use the animal’s blood alone rather than combining it with perfusate?

From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2022

So this perfusate was optimized to control those things as well.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2022

ANDRIJEVIC: Then, once you restore the circulation, you can actually reach out to those organs with our perfusate, a specifically tailored drug cocktail that affects the cells and tells them, “Don’t die; there is hope.”

From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2022

Our perfusate is completely acellular—it doesn’t have any cells.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2022

Inside, the fluid that is circulating is actually a one-to-one mixture of the animal’s endogenous blood and our perfusate.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2022

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