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Definitions
cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
Word origin
From 1520s, from Latin perfusus, past participle of perfundo (“to pour over, besprinkle”) from per- + fundo (“to pour”) (from nasalised form of PIE root *gheu- ("to pour")); compare diffuse, suffuse.
Used in a sentence
“As a patient has decreased ability to perfuse tissue, conversion of glucose into carbon dioxide and energy in the cellular level is also decreased.”
“When AVP was perfused into punctate regions in the brain of the sheep or rabbit, the pyrogen-induced fever was suppressed.”
“To test which solution was optimal for tissue survival, they perfused these solutions through the vasculature of canine thyroid glands, by using an apparatus with a silicone rubber oxygenator (Fig. 1.3).”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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