[ UK /tɹænsfjˈuːz/ ]
[ US /tɹænsˈfjuz/ ]
VERB
  1. impart gradually
    Her presence instilled faith into the children
    transfuse love of music into the students
  2. give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to
  3. pour out of one vessel into another
  4. treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
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How To Use transfuse In A Sentence

  • In prose, if not in poetry, there are few worries about the "vanity of translation" identified by Shelley, who wrote that "it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as to seek to transfuse from one language to another the creations of a poet". The worldwide upsurge in demand for English versions of foreign bestsellers, coupled with the growing power of Google Translate, suggest we may be closer than ever to escaping the age of Babel
  • In few cases during perioperative period, the anesthesiologist has to transfuse fluid rapidly to restore the intravascular volume and save the patient from impending hypovolumic shock.
  • The teacher transfused a love of literature to his students.
  • This was certainly true for Halstead, who is the subject of numerous legendary tales involving exceptionally risky treatments; he transfused his own blood into his sister to save her life and performed the first American cholecystectomy gall bladder removal on his mother on the kitchen table. Jason Eric Schiffman, M.D., M.A., M.B.A.: The Successful Drug Addict
  • If blood loss during operation has been excessive, previously cross-matched blood will be transfused.
  • In 1901-1903 Landsteiner pointed out that a similar reaction may occur when the blood of one human individual is transfused, not with the blood of another animal, but with that of another human being, and that this might be the cause of shock, jaundice, and haemoglobinuria that had followed some earlier attempts at blood transfusions. Karl Landsteiner - Biography
  • Gregory Mosher, who directed last year's flawless Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," has done his best to transfuse this moldy theatrical corpse with the blood of plausibility. Men Dating Themselves
  • As a result, the program has been expanded to offer this technique to anyone who might otherwise be transfused with allogenic blood.
  • Because no Canadian CD36-negative donors were available, antigen-negative plateletpheresis units from the BloodCenter of Wisconsin were successfully transfused.
  • To exert a hemostatic effect, an appropriate dose of transfused platelets needs to circulate intravascularly for an adequate time (platelet survival).
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