perfusate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of perfusate
1910–15; perfuse + -ate 1, probably on the model of filtrate, precipitate
Example Sentences
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Why didn’t you use the animal’s blood alone rather than combining it with perfusate?
From Scientific American
The team hooked up the animals’ circulatory system to OrganEx, a system that pumps a mixture of blood and a “perfusate” of fluid-borne nutrients around the body.
From Scientific American
Our perfusate is completely acellular—it doesn’t have any cells.
From Scientific American
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
So this perfusate was optimized to control those things as well.
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