perfusion
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- noun
- /pərˈfjuːʒən/
- Specialized
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perfusión
- During the surgery, the team focused on maintaining optimal perfusion in the affected area to promote healing.
- skin perfusion
- tissue perfusion
- increased perfusion
And with this increased leakage and perfusion of fluid from the blood vessels, it's going to cause swelling.
- And with this increased leakage and perfusion of fluid from the blood vessels, it's going to cause swelling.
- So if the, the cold water immersion is causing vasoconstriction, it's, it's preventing the muscle perfusion, right?
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Serial V/Q scans showed an improvement in perfusion to the left lung, but the right remained largely unperfused.
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And this is a perfusion setup where we're flowing fluid through these channels.
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Control perfusion increased 14 percent, and perfusion at 18 mmHg increased 20 percent.
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Part of this procedure, technically referred to as perfusion, is not pleasant under the best of circumstances.
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However, the ability of tissue to maintain perfusion due to autoregulation in response to increasing pressure is limited.
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And that may be increasing the the perfusion of tissues, peripheral tissues.
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When surface pressure greater than 73 mmHg was applied, there was an overall reduction in perfusion relative to control.
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The mechanisms responsible for these temperature-induced increases in perfusion are most likely multifactorial in nature.
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The doctor monitored the perfusion of blood to ensure the patient's organs received enough oxygen.
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After the treatment, the improvement in perfusion helped restore function to the injured tissue.
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Etymology
Perfusion comes from two Latin parts, per- 'through' and fundere 'to pour'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of infuse ('to pour into'): perfusion means 'to pour through', so it describes the flow or pumping of liquid, especially blood, through an organ or tissue.