reciprocal transfusion

n.

An attempt to confer immunity by transfusing blood taken from a donor just recovered from an infectious disease into a recipient suffering from the same disease, at the same time transfusing an equal amount from the sick to the well person.

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Words nearby reciprocal transfusion

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