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transfuse

[trans-fyooz] / trænsˈfjuz /


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After a couple of dog-dog and dog-calf test runs, he made several attempts to transfuse lamb blood into human patients.

From Slate Feb. 14, 2022

An emergency investigational new drug, or e-IND, authorization is required to transfuse convalescent plasma into patients, but not to collect it from donors or distribute it.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2020

If our health care workers are compromised, they cannot transfuse.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2020

Wright will likely transfuse plasma into the first person in late August.

From Science Magazine Aug. 1, 2016

They had to transfuse several units of red cells— How will I tell Soraya?

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

It may also be possible to design gene therapy to help patients make these antibodies themselves, or use an older technique that transfuses the antibodies directly.

From Reuters Jul. 8, 2010

Every citizen of the United States transfuses his attachment to his little republic in the common store of American patriotism.

From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Reeves, Henry

It is generally true that the surface of the wood should not dry more rapidly than the moisture transfuses from the center of the piece to its surface, otherwise disaster will result.

From Seasoning of Wood by Wagner, J. B. (Joseph Bernard)

The whole soul and body of the man were filled and suffused by the glow that transfuses the blood of the schoolboy at the end of the term.

From The Literary Sense by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

There is no repulsive formality, no array of logical presentment to arouse antagonism of thought, but only inglowing enthusiasm, that transfuses the Scriptural appeal, and illuminates it with winning illustration.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various

Dozens of additional units may have to be transfused if bleeding continues or worsens, he added.

From New York Times Jun. 15, 2024

The reason why it is necessary to remove the A and B antigens to create universal donor blood is because they can trigger life-threatening immune reactions when transfused into non-matched recipients.

From Science Daily Apr. 29, 2024

Blood that is destined for new babies, immunocompromised patients, pregnant women or to be transfused into a foetus in-uterine must be screened for a virus called cytomegalovirus or CMV.

From BBC Feb. 16, 2024

Waking in the ICU, she learned she had been transfused several units of blood.

From Scientific American Jul. 21, 2023

He was alert in every sense and fibre, and yet quite sure and steady, and lit up, as if transfused.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Critics, however, argue that transfusing blood directly from donor to recipient without totally reliable testing for infection isn’t worth the risk, even if those donors are regularly screened at predetermined intervals.

From Slate Oct. 21, 2025

The interventions just aren’t as exotic as transfusing yourself with a young person’s blood.

From Seattle Times Jan. 5, 2024

"I crossed my fingers that I was going to be legally safe, saving these patients' lives by taking them to the operating room and treating their ectopic pregnancy and transfusing blood as needed," Huntsberger said.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2023

Not everyone, however, is invested in transfusing mature hemoglobins and are instead harnessing the flexibility of stem cells.

From Washington Post Apr. 16, 2022

Galton tried transfusing rabbits with the blood of other rabbits to transmit the gemmules.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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