blood transfusion
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3.7
- noun
- /blʌd trænsˈfjuːʒən/
- Specialized
:
transfusión de sangre
- After her accident, she received a blood transfusion to restore her health.
- receive blood transfusions
- homologous blood transfusion
- autologous blood transfusion
And so the courts have had to intervene at times and order that a child does receive a blood transfusion.
- And so the courts have had to intervene at times and order that a child does receive a blood transfusion.
- They often require blood transfusions to correct this.
- But on the third night between morphine shots and blood transfusion, he asked me in a lucid interval.
Examples
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- She needs a blood transfusion immediately.
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Oh, I had a blood transfusion, and I feel great.
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But your blood transfusions saved the girl.
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Should I prepare for a blood transfusion?
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Blood transfusions are being given.
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They often require blood transfusions to correct this.
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They had to give him a blood transfusion.
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They're giving you a blood transfusion to try and slow this down.
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Sir Geoffrey has to have a blood transfusion to save his life.
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None of the patients who received preoperative blood transfusions developed infectious complications.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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4.8
Putting blood or plasma into a vein to treat someone
A treatment that slowly removes a person's blood and replaces it with donor blood
Putting blood or cells back into the body after they were removed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is fully compositional: 'transfusion' denotes administering blood/plasma and 'blood' specifies the substance involved, so the phrase simply means administering blood. This follows regular English noun + noun compounding and has direct parallels in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Blood transfusion comes from the literal act of moving blood from one person into another, and that act is called a transfusion. So the phrase means giving blood to someone 'to replace lost blood' or 'to improve health'.