Perfuse

Quick meaning: Perfuse is a verb meaning (transitive) To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light.

Meaning

(transitive) To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body.

Example Sentences

When AVP was perfused into punctate regions in the brain of the sheep or rabbit, the pyrogen-induced fever was suppressed.

As a patient has decreased ability to perfuse tissue, conversion of glucose into carbon dioxide and energy in the cellular level is also decreased.

To test which solution was optimal for tissue survival, they perfused these solutions through the vasculature of canine thyroid glands, by using an apparatus with a silicone rubber oxygenator (Fig. 1.3).

The right coronary artery system perfused the inferior and infero-septal regions in 89% of the patients, identified with a right dominant system. The anterolateral papillary muscle was perfused from the left coronary system in all cases.

Word Forms

• perfuses
• perfusing
• perfused

Synonyms for perfuse

Depending on context, synonyms include suffuse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include suffuse, transfuse, infuse, permeate, interpenetrate, permeabilize.

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