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transfusion

trans fyooh zhuhn

  • n  the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
  • n  the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another

  • A blood transfusion could save him, but his wife, torn between her husband's life and their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses--a religious community that prohibits transfusions .
  • Previous trials have shown that heart disease patients, for example, who receive a blood transfusion to help restore oxygen to deprived tissues, have a 25% chance of having a heart .
  • Rodriguez's parents had refused a blood transfusion, and the girl's doctors felt that without it the operation was even more risky.
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  • Alexandre Vinokourov in Forbes
    I heard that I made a transfusion with my father's blood,Vinokourov said. "That's absurd, I can tell you that with his blood, I would have tested positive for vodka."
  • Gordon Brown in International Herald Tribune
    We need a transfusion of capital into the global economy,Brown said. "I'm going to ask the G20 summit next week to support a global expansion of trade finance of $100 billion to help revive trade in all parts of the world."
  • Sonny Lubick in SportingNews.com
    I think when they were in there in the scope they thought they could maybe try to fix that a little bit,Lubick said. "But yet he still needed some transfusion yesterday and so I'm sure he lost a lot of blood. I can't say much more than...

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