exchange transfusion
- noun
- /ɪkˈsʧeɪndʒ trænsˈfjuːʒən/
- Specialized
:
transfusión por intercambio
- The baby's exchange transfusion went all right.
Examples
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After the exchange transfusion, the patient showed significant improvement in their health.
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Exchange transfusion was performed for patients with parasite density >10%, end-stage organ failure complications, and serum bilirubin >25 mg/dL.
Academic text (2012) -
"They decided to do the exchange transfusion," Martha said in a low voice, her eyes worried.
Fiction book (1994) -
The doctor explained that an exchange transfusion was necessary to treat the baby's condition.
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During the surgery, the team performed an exchange transfusion to replace the patient's blood safely.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — a transfusion involving removal and replacement of blood — is directly derivable from 'exchange' (giving and receiving) combined with 'transfusion' (administration of blood). Although it is a technical medical term, the compositional logic is clear and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the basic procedure.
Etymology
Exchange transfusion comes from the words exchange, meaning a swap, and transfusion, meaning putting in blood. In this procedure doctors slowly take out a person's blood and put in another person's blood, like changing water in a fish tank, so the old blood is replaced and that's why it means 'to remove and replace a person's blood'.
