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perfusate
[ per-fyoo-zeyt, -zit ]
/ pÉrËfyu zeÉȘt, -zÉȘt /
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noun Medicine/Medical, Surgery.
a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
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Origin of perfusate
Words nearby perfusate
perf. part., perfume, perfumer, perfumery, perfunctory, perfusate, perfuse, perfusion, Pergamum, pergelisol, pergola
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How to use perfusate in a sentence
To transfuse the âartificial blood,â the team rigged up an automated system that pumps the perfusate into the pigsâ bloodstream.
How Scientists Revived Organs in Pigs an Hour After They Died|Shelly Fan|August 9, 2022|Singularity HubÂIt pumped a perfusateâa liquid mix of synthetic hemoglobin, antibiotics, and molecules to protect cells and prevent blood clotsâthrough the pigsâ entire bodies one hour after they died.
Researchers repaired cells in damaged pig organs an hour after the animalâs death|Rhiannon Williams|August 3, 2022|MIT Technology Review