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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

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 Wagner, J. B. (Joseph Bernard)

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

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

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

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

The medics couldn’t find a vein on her hands, so they transfused the blood through a vein in her head.

From Reuters Dec. 14, 2022

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 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

"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

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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