perfuse
Americanverb (used with object)
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to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
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to diffuse (a liquid, color, etc.) through or over something.
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Surgery. to pass (fluid) through blood vessels or the lymphatic system.
verb
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to suffuse or permeate (a liquid, colour, etc) through or over (something)
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surgery to pass (a fluid) through organ tissue to ensure adequate exchange of oxygen and carbon monoxide
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of perfuse
1520–30; < Latin perfūsus, past participle of perfundere to drench, flood. See per-, fuse 2
Example Sentences
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The system uses a blood-derived solution to perfuse the organs and has a hemofilter to remove toxins.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024
I was in hemorrhagic shock, a state in which oxygen-carrying blood can’t adequately perfuse the body’s vital organs.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2023
He could fix the brain’s structure in place with chemicals first, just as Dr. Mikula was doing, buying time to perfuse the cryoprotectant more slowly to avoid dehydration.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2015
The networking of common devices that surround and perfuse our society is rapidly becoming reality.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 22, 2014
But the chap to the ‘Green Man’s’ that perfuse wi’ his liquor at seasons of rejoicing.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
“We can do surgery on fish out of the water as long as you have their gills getting perfused with water,” she said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Immune rejection aside, pig hearts transplanted into baboons seem to sputter out in a matter of days unless they’re perfused with a nutrient solution before the transplant, Mohiuddin says.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2022
But experiments have shown that if a beating heart is perfused with warm blood, it can be preserved for much longer out of the body - up to 12 hours.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2017
The first time that I perfused a mouse, I felt rattled for the rest of the day.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2016
I loved how the sun and salt spray perfused my skin, filling me with the memory of light.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
“And then you can start to have organ damage where your kidneys don’t work, your spleen, your liver. If things get really bad, then you start to not be perfusing your brain the same way.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
Adams, Parent, and others shot back that NRP is consistent with U.S. legal standards of death, because the technique is limited to perfusing organs and doesn’t impact the determination of death.
From Science Magazine ● May 11, 2023
Hanging beside him is a bag of perfusing fluid – the liquid used to wash out the kidney – and once he has the artery between his thumb and forefinger, the registrar inserts a tube.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2018
Researchers have also devoted much effort to avoiding the deep freeze altogether, by perfusing organs with a cooled cocktail of preservatives, oxygen, antioxidants and the like.
From Economist ● Feb. 4, 2016
And she insists that “the idea of a cosmic loving-kindness perfusing the universe is a serious, even potentially dangerous error.”
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2014
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