transfuse

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See also: transfusé

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ fusus, past participle of fundō (“I pour, I melt”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹænsˈfjuːz/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːz

Verb

transfuse (third-person singular simple present transfuses, present participle transfusing, simple past and past participle transfused)

  1. (transitive, medicine) To administer a transfusion of.
    • 1952, Vincent Joseph Collins, Principles and Practice of Anesthesiology, page 461:
      A few years subsequent to his investigation, Richard Lower, also working on dogs, successfully tranfused the blood of one dog to that of another.
  2. (transitive) To pour liquid from one vessel into another.
  3. (transitive) To diffuse or permeate through something.

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French

Pronunciation

Verb

transfuse

  1. inflection of transfuser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

transfuse

  1. third-person singular past historic of transfondere

Etymology 2

Participle

transfuse f pl

  1. feminine plural of transfuso

Latin

Participle

trānsfūse

  1. vocative masculine singular of trānsfūsus
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