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Definition: Perfusion |
PerfusionNoun1. Pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Perfusion \Per*fu"sion\, noun. [Latin expression perfusio.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Bathing an organ or tissue with a fluid. In regional perfusion, a specific area of the body (usually an arm or a leg) receives high doses of anticancer drugs through a blood vessel. Such a procedure is performed to treat cancer that has not spread. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Perfusion |
| Specialty definitions using "perfusion": Bernstein acid perfusion test, Bioreactors ♦ continuous hyperthermic peritoneal perfusion, Crush Syndrome ♦ esophageal acid perfusion test ♦ Free Radical Scavengers ♦ Glucose Clamp Technique ♦ hyperthermic perfusion ♦ Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping, isolated limb perfusion, isolated lung perfusion ♦ limb perfusion ♦ oesophageal acid perfusion test ♦ perfusion magnetic resonance imaging, Perfusion, Regional, peritoneal perfusion, Pulsatile Flow ♦ Tissue Distribution. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Perfusion" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (perfusion), French (drip), German (perfusion). |
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Health | Oxygen tension and adequate perfusion are critically important for wound healing. (references) | |
It is important to separate the effects of hypovolemia and decreased perfusion from the effects of anemia. (references) | ||
This type of respiratory failure which results from a mismatch between ventilation and perfusion is called hypoxemic respiratory failure. (references) | ||
Business | Patients within this category typically require oxygen therapy, perfusion, or intra-veinous nutrition. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Perfusion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perfusion" is used about 146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 146 | 26,107 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "perfusion": Bernstein acid perfusion test ♦ continuous hyperthermic peritoneal perfusion ♦ esophageal acid perfusion test ♦ hyperthermic perfusion ♦ isolated hepatic perfusion ♦ isolated limb perfusion ♦ isolated lung perfusion ♦ limb perfusion ♦ oesophageal acid perfusion test ♦ perfusion magnetic resonance imaging ♦ peritoneal perfusion. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "perfusion": perfusion-fixed. | |
Ending with "perfusion": non-perfusion, ventilation-perfusion. | |
Containing "perfusion": Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "perfusion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كساء (dress, garment, robe), نضح (asperse, aspersion, douche, exudation, exude, ooze, pulverization, pulverize, spray, sprinkle, spurt, sweat, transpiration), حقن متواصل, تغطية (concealment, coverage, covering, encasement), رذاذ (dribble, drizzle, spit, spray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | perfusion (drip-feeding, infusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | perfusie (drip-feeding, infusion, through passage of fluid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | perfuusio (drip-feeding, infusion), läpivirtaus (drip-feeding, infusion), läpi valutus (drip-feeding, infusion), läpi valuminen (drip-feeding, infusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | perfusion (f), perfusion, transfusion continue, goutte- -goutte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Perfusion (drip-feeding, infusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έκχυση υγρού (drip-feeding, infusion), εξίδρωση (bleeding, drip-feeding, exudation, fatting up, infusion, sweating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זלוף (spattering, spraying, sprinkling), טפטוף (dribble, drip, dripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megszórás, behintés (dusting), vérátömlesztés (blood transfusion, transfusion of blood), perfúzió, belocsolás, átömlesztés (transfusion), átáramoltatás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | perfusione (drip-feeding, infusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erfusionpay perfusão (drip-feeding, infusion, leakage), perfusão. (various references) perfuzie. (various references) опрыскивание, перфузия. (various references) polivanje (damping, douche, sprinkling), obasipanje. (various references) perfusión (drip, drip-feeding, infusion). (various references) perfusion (drip-feeding, infusion), gjutning (casting, foundry, molding, moulding, pouring). (various references) serpme (aspersion, distribution, splash, spreading, sprinkling, strewing), serpilme. (various references) окроплення (affusion, aspersion, sprinkling), обприскування, перфузія. (various references) sự vảy (aspersion), sự rắc sự đổ tr n ngập, sự l m tr n ngập. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "perfusion": perfusionist, perfusionists, perfusions. (additional references) | |
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"Perfusion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perfusio, perfusiom, perfuzion, perifusion, Pertusato, pertussin, prussion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "perfusion" (pronounced 'Per*fu"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-o-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pruinose. | |
-2 letters: infuser, inpours, orpines, profuse, purines, soupier, uprisen, urinose. | |
-3 letters: furies, fusion, infers, infuse, inpour, insure, inures, irones, nosier, opines, orpine, orpins, person, poiser, ponies, poseur, prions, prison, prunes, puisne, punier, purine, purins, repins, ripens, rouens, rusine, senior, sniper, spinor, supine, unripe, unrips, uprise, uprose, urines, ursine. | |
-4 letters: eosin, euros, ferns, finer, fines. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-o-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: ibuprofens, perfusions. | |
+2 letters: prefocusing. | |
+3 letters: perfusionist, prefocussing, profundities. | |
+4 letters: perfusionists, putrefactions, splendiferous, superfetation. | |
+5 letters: hyperfunctions, perfidiousness, prefigurations, sulfinpyrazone, superconfident, superfetations, superinfection, unprofessional, worshipfulness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 66 75 73 69 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r f u s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0066 0075 0073 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507184728785758180 |
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