perfused
- a word derived from perfuse.
Example Sentences
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On Valentine’s Day 2022, he became the first person in the world known to receive a heart, liver, and kidney from a donor whose organs were perfused after circulatory death.
From Science Magazine • May 11, 2023
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
Once family consent was obtained, a transplant team could quickly harvest organs, including the heart, while they were still being perfused with blood.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 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
