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💉 To flush with fluid 🌅 To spread through
to perfuse

to perfuse

2 9.9
Force fluid to flow through a body part or tissue for medical use
  • verb
  • /pərˈfjuːz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : perfundir
  • Well, the very best CPR you can do only just generates enough blood pressure to perfuse your brain until help arrives.
  • perfused intracardially
  • perfuses ventilated alveoli
  • perfused with blood

Or muscles get perfused with the blood it needs.

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Examples

  • After the heart is sewn in and we allow it to be perfused with blood, it starts to beat.

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  • Or muscles get perfused with the blood it needs.

    Andrew Huberman

  • And then what they would be able to do is perfuse water, warm water or hot water exquisitely to different parts of the brain or the body.

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  • Though his oxygen saturation levels were in the upper 90s to 100, the oxygen wasn't perfusing through his body.

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  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) involves supporting breathing and/or circulation to allow vital organs to be perfused with blood and oxygen when the heart and lungs are unable to function normally.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The doctor will perfuse the tissue with a nutrient solution during the operation.

  • In the lab, scientists perfuse organs with oxygenated blood to assess their viability.

  • To study the effects of the drug, researchers will perfuse the cells with a specific solution.

Synonyms

to inject
vsto perfuse
150 4.4

Force liquid or gas into something, often into the body with a needle

forces fluid to flow through tissue rather than merely placing it into the body
to infuse
vsto perfuse
  • Specialized
12 6.0

Put medicine or fluid slowly into a vein

forces fluid to flow through tissue rather than only into a vein

How Much

to flood
176 1.0
to saturate
55 5.2
to perfuse
  • Specialized
2 9.9
to irrigate
  • Specialized
4 6.0
to moisten
7 3.0

Surface Forms

perfuse infinitive
perfused past
perfused past participle
perfusing present participle
perfuses third person singular

Morphology

perfuse = fuse (semi-transparent) = per + fuse

Formally 'per-' (through) + 'fuse' (from Latin 'pour') matches the sense, but modern English 'fuse' usually means 'join' and 'per-' is not a highly productive, familiar prefix to B1 learners; the meaning is also specialized/medical.

Etymology

Perfuse comes from the Latin parts per- 'through' and fundere 'to pour', a root that also appears in English words like diffuse and profuse. Think of it as 'pouring through' — that is why doctors use it for forcing fluid to flow through body parts or tissues.