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transfuse

[trans-fyooz] / trænsˈfjuz /


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She decided instead to transfuse more units of blood and start pressors, medicines that boost blood pressure.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2023

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

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 into the common store of American patriotism.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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 J. B. (Joseph Bernard) Wagner

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

His studies were directed to the investigation of the laws of chivalry, and he has transfused into his work the spirit of the voluminous codes now forgotten, which he delighted to consult.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

"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

“This is really just to stop the bleed of losing our nurses to other states and other areas, and now we can start transfusing and really start to build on it.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2022

The only thing I didn’t like about Near Dark at the time was its ending: Caleb vanquishes Jesse and Severen and manages to reverse the vampirism afflicting him and Mae by transfusing his father’s blood.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2017

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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