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transfuse

[trans-fyooz] / trænsˈfjuz /


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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

Maharaj’s trial wouldn’t be the first to transfuse plasma from young donors into older people.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2018

In her memoir’s loveliest moments, Gay seems to transfuse what she relishes about her physical self into her prose.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2017

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

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

A single thought transfuses every form; The sunny day is changed into the storm, For light is dark, hard soft, and cold is warm.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

She moulds their habits and she transfuses into them the feelings, motives, and principles which actuate herself.

From Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous

The evaporation from the surface of a stick should not exceed the rate at which the moisture transfuses from the interior to the surface.

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

If an AnWj negative person develops antibodies against AnWj and then receives AnWj positive blood, those antibodies can attack the transfused red blood cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Modified stem cells are then transfused back into the body, where they multiply and increase the production of stable, well-functioning red cells.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2024

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

From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2023

Skrebensky was beautiful to her this morning, his face softened and transfused with suffering and with love, his movements very still and gentle.

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

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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