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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin transfūsiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
transfusion (countable and uncountable, plural transfusions)
- (medicine) The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another.
- Synonym: blood transfusion
- Coordinate term: infusion
- The act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another.
- Synonym: decanting
- Coordinate term: infusion
Derived terms
Translations
medicine: the transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another
- Arabic: نَقْل اَلدَّم m (naql ad-dam), إِصْفَاق m (ʔiṣfāq)
- Catalan: transfusió f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 輸血 / 输血 (zh) (shūxuè or shūxiě)
- Czech: transfuze f
- Danish: transfusion c
- Dutch: transfusie (nl) f
- Esperanto: transfuzo
- Finnish: verensiirto (fi)
- Galician: transfusión (gl) f
- German: Transfusion (de), Bluttransfusion (de)
- Greek: μετάγγιση (el) f (metángisi)
- Hungarian: vérátömlesztés (hu), transzfúzió (hu)
- Japanese: 輸血 (ja) (yuketsu)
- Malay: pemindahan darah, transfusi
- Persian: انتقال خون (enteqâl-e xôn)
- Romanian: transfuzie de sânge f, transfuzie (ro) f
- Russian: перелива́ние (ru) n (perelivánije), трансфу́зия (ru) f (transfúzija), перелива́ние кро́ви (ru) n (perelivánije króvi, literally “blood transfusion”), гемотрансфу́зия (ru) f (gemotransfúzija, literally “haemotranfusion”)
- Spanish: transfusión (es) f
- Ukrainian: перелива́ння n (perelyvánnja), трансфу́зія f (transfúzija), перелива́ння кро́ві n (perelyvánnja króvi, literally “blood transfusion”), гемотрансфу́зія f (hemotransfúzija, literally “haemotranfusion”)
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the act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trānsfūsiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
transfusion f (plural transfusions)
- (medicine) blood transfusion
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