transfuse
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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
But type O cells lack these antigens, making it possible to transfuse that blood type into anyone.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 10, 2019
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
The difficulty imposed in drying, however, is not so much the additional heat required as it is in the rate at which the water transfuses through the solid wood.
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
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)
Another 8% have O negative blood, often called the universal blood type, which can be safely transfused into any patient, because it will not trigger an immune response.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024
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
Waking in the ICU, she learned she had been transfused several units of blood.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2023
St. Cyril of Alexandria1140 glowingly describes the soul inhabited by the Holy Ghost as inlaid with gold, transfused by fire, filled with the sweet odor of balsam, and so forth.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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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