Transfusion

Definition: Transfusion

Transfusion

Noun

1. The introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery.

Date "transfusion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Etymology: Transfusion \Trans*fu"sion\, noun. [Latin expression transfusio: compare to the French expression transfusion.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Transfusion

Domain	Definition
Health	The infusion of components of blood or whole blood into the bloodstream. The blood may be donated from another person, or it may have been taken from the person earlier and stored until needed. (references)
Mining	The entry and exit of any gaseous or hydrothermal fluid in solid rock toproduce such rocks as granite. CF:granitization. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Transfusion

Synonym: blood transfusion (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Transfusion

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Mixture	Impregnation; infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion; infiltration; seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding; interpolation; adulteration, sophistication.
Remedy	Treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Transfusion

English words defined with "transfusion": ABO blood group system, ABO group, ABO system, apheresis ♦ hepatitis B, hepatitis C ♦ permutation, pheresis ♦ replacement, Rh, Rh factor, Rh incompatibility, rhesus factor ♦ serum hepatitis, substitution, switch ♦ transfuse, Transfusible, transfusion reaction, transposition. (references)

Specialty definitions using "transfusion": Antigens, Human Platelet ♦ Blood Grouping and Crossmatching, blood groups ♦ Coombs' Test ♦ Hemodilution ♦ Intraoperative Care ♦ Kell Blood-Group System ♦ laboratory assistant ♦ medical technicia, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST, MEDICAL-LABORATORY TECHNICIAN. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Transfusion" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (transfusion), French (transfusion), German (transfusion), Swedish (transfusion).

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Modern Usage: Transfusion

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	When I've finished with the Green Baize Vampire, he's gonna need a blood transfusion, a brain transplant and a set of National Health railings. (Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire; writing credit: Trevor Preston)
Clever	Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood is affirmative or negative. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Transfusion (1910)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Transfusion

Domain	Title
Books	Albumin and the Systemic Circulation (Current Studies in Hematology and Blood Transfusion, No 53) (reference) Transfusion Medicine: Quo Vadis? What Has Been Achieved, What Is To Be Expectected (reference) Spain Anesthetic, Blood Pressure, Dyalisis and Transfusion 2001 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Cryopreservation and Low Temperature Biology in Blood Transfusion (Developments in Hematology and Immunology, 24) (reference) Infection, immunity, and blood transfusion : proceedings of the XVIth Annual Scientific Symposium of the American Red Cross, Washington, DC, May 9-11, 1984 ; editors, Roger Y. Dodd, Lewellys F. Barker, with the editorial assistance of Alice R. Scipio and (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	International Society Of Blood Transfusion Membership (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Transfusion (reference) Transfusion One (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Transfusion

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	[Anatomy of the circulatory system with illustration of blood transfusion from animal to man]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		The Transfusion of Blood - An Operation at the "Hôpital de la Pitié," at Paris. / Miranda. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[Blood transfusion from a sheep to a man]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		The blood transfusion service would like to appeal. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	An American soldier wounded by shrapnel is being given blood plasma transfusion by Pfc. Harvey White, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in Sicily. Credit: Library of Congress.		Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Assembling rubber closures for blood transfusion bottles. Nancy Synnestvedt (left), and Marjorie Holms, mother of a two-year-old child, are just a few of the many women performing vital war work at Baxter Laboratorie. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.		Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives, Glenview, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Electric Institute of Washington. Battlefield blood transfusion. Credit: Library of Congress.		If he should fall is your blood there to save him? The emergency blood transfusion service needs blood donors / A. Games. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Transfusion

Author	Quotation
Dwight L. Moody	Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Transfusion

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		By blood transfusion or organ transplant. (references)
		Through blood transfusion or by organ transplant. (references)
		It is then given to the patient like an ordinary blood transfusion. (references)
Business		Principal sources of clinical wastes include hospitals, health centers, veterinary surgeries, dental surgeries, GP surgeries, blood transfusion centers and public health laboratories. (references)
		Since 1985, screenings for high-risk groups, general screenings of blood for transfusion and blood products, and screenings of military draftees, prison inmates, and alien laborers have been conducted. (references)
Economic History	Belarus	Completion of the renovation of the Gomel Regional Blood Transfusion Center in July of this year with a project cost of $475,000 marked the high point of this assistance. (references)
	Denmark	Best sales prospects are: Infusion and transfusion equipment+ADs- cardiovascular equipment, diagnostic ultrasound equipment in general+ADs- defibrillators: cancer diagnostic/therapy equipment+ADs- monitoring equipment for anesthesia and for intensive care (respirators, etc.)+ADs- medical-related biotechnology+ADs- endoscopes+ADs- surgical lasers+ADs- catheter devices - diagnostic and therapeutic+ADs- operating-room furniture+ADs- and disposables (custom-made and cost effective). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Transfusion

"Transfusion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Transfusion" is used about 256 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%	256	18,500

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Transfusion

Expressions using "transfusion": autologous transfusion ♦ Blood Component Transfusion ♦ blood transfusion ♦ Erythrocyte Transfusion ♦ exchange transfusion ♦ Fetofetal Transfusion ♦ Fetomaternal Transfusion ♦ Leukocyte Transfusion ♦ Lymphocyte Transfusion ♦ Platelet Transfusion ♦ transfusion hepatitis ♦ transfusion reaction ♦ transfusion set. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "transfusion": transfusion-transmitted, Transfusion-Transmitted Virus.
	Ending with "transfusion": hyper-transfusion, post-transfusion.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Transfusion

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
blood transfusion	117	anemia blood transfusion	4
transfusion	57	blood transfusion complication	4
twin to twin transfusion syndrome	37	blood transfusion side effects	4
twin twin transfusion	31	blood malaysia services transfusion	3
platelet transfusion	11	exchange transfusion	3
transfusion sanguinea	10	plasma transfusion	3
transfusion reaction	10	blood philippine services transfusion	3
blood reaction transfusion	10	blood dog transfusion	3
transfusion medicine	8	blood jehovah transfusion witness	3
cap.org committee governance transfusion.htm	7	blood jehovahs transfusion witness	3
blood service transfusion	6	filtre transfusion	3
twin transfusion syndrome	5	iron transfusion	3
journal transfusion	5	en pediatria transfusion	3
blood history transfusion	5	blood ppt transfusion	3
de sangre transfusion	4	manufacturer set transfusion	3
transfusion set	4	blood risk transfusion	3
first blood transfusion	4	alternative blood transfusion	3
blood transfusion autologous	4	blood set transfusion	3
blood international society transfusion	4	blood reagents transfusion	3
history transfusion	4	twin transfusion	3
		guidelines transfusion	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Transfusion

Language		Translations for "transfusion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		transfuzion, shprehje (emphasis, exponent, expression, locution, loose, phrase, phrases, profession, term, utterance, voice). (various references)

Arabic		‏نقل الدم (transfuse), ‏تحول (chop, convert, evolution, inconstancy, juncture, metamorphosis, modification, modify, mutate, mutation, reduction, switch, transference, transform, transformation, transition, transmutation, turn, turn into, turnover). (various references)

Bulgarian		трансфузия, преливане (flowage, fusion, infusion, overflow). (various references)

Chinese		渗流 (OOZE, Oozed, oozing, seepage). (various references)

Czech		transfúze, přelití. (various references)

Danish		transfusion. (various references)

Dutch		transfusie (blood transfusion, transfusion of blood). (various references)

Farsi		نقل وانتقال (Cession, Locomotion, Redeployment), تزریق خون , تزریق (Infusion, Shot), رسوخ (Ooze, Seep, Seepage, Sink). (various references)

Finnish		verensiirto (blood transfusion). (various references)

French		transfusion du sang, transfusion (blood transfusion, transfusion of blood). (various references)

German		Transfusion. (various references)

Greek		μετάγγιση (decantation, racking). (various references)

Hebrew		ערוי �"ם, ערוי (infusion, spilling). (various references)

Hungarian		átöntés (decantation, decanting, recast), átömlesztés (perfusion). (various references)

Indonesian		tranfusi. (various references)

Italian		trasfusione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		輸液 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ゆえき. (various references)

Manx		caghlaa folley. (various references)

Norwegian		overføring. (various references)

Pig Latin		ansfusiontray

Portuguese		trasfego, transmissão (broadcast, communication, conduction, convection, devolution, propagation, sending, transfer, transference, transmission, transmitting), transfusão, transfusão, inoculação (inoculation), difusão (propagation). (various references)

Romanian		transfuzie, insuflare (inculcation, injection, insufflation). (various references)

Russian		переливание (recast). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		transfuzija, pretakanje, presipanje (outpouring). (various references)

Spanish		transfusión. (various references)

Swedish		blodöverföring, överföring (transfer, transmission, transmitting). (various references)

Turkish		nakil (conveyance, devolution, move, removal, transfer, transference, transport), kan nakli (blood transfusion), ilham verme, esinleme, aktarım. (various references)

Ukrainian		змішування (admixture, amalgamation, blend, commixture, immixture, mix, mixture), переливання (superfusion), передача (assignation, assignment, cession, devolution, disposal, transfer, transference, transmission). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự truyền thụ (indoctrination), sự rót sang. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Transfusion

Derivations
	Words beginning with "transfusion": transfusional, transfusions. (additional references)
	Words ending with "transfusion": autotransfusion, posttransfusion. (additional references)
	Words containing "transfusion": autotransfusions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Transfusion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tranfusion, transfuion. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Transfusion"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "transfusion" (pronounced transfyuw"zhun)
6	-f y uw" zh u n	confusion, diffusion, fusion, infusion, profusion.
4	-uw" zh u n	allusion, collusion, conclusion, contusion, delusion, disillusion, exclusion, extrusion, illusion, inclusion, intrusion, occlusion, preclusion, seclusion.
3	-zh u n	abrasion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, conversion, corrosion, decision, derision, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, excursion, explosion, immersion, implosion, incision, incursion, indecision, invasion, inversion, lesion, misprision, occasion, persuasion, perversion, precision, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, version, vision.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Transfusion

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-i-n-n-o-r-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: fountains, insurants.
	-3 letters: arsonist, faitours, fontinas, fountain, fustians, insurant, nonsuits, onanists, rainouts, santours, sautoirs, stannous.
	-4 letters: anoints, antifur, aorists, aristos, aroints, aurists, faitour, fanions, fontina, forints, frisson, fusains, fusions, fustian, infants, insofar, instars, introns, inturns, issuant, nasions, nations, natrons, nitrous, nonarts, nonsuit, nutrias, onanist, outsins, rainout, rations, sanious, santirs, santour, santurs, satoris, sautoir.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-i-n-n-o-r-s-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: transfusions.
	+2 letters: transfusional.
	+4 letters: autotransfusion, posttransfusion.
	+5 letters: autotransfusions, transfigurations, unprofitableness.
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