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BLOOD TRANSFUSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
Synonyms:
blood transfusion; transfusion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("blood transfusion" is a kind of...):
insertion; introduction; intromission (the act of putting one thing into another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood transfusion"):
exchange transfusion (slow removal of a person's blood and its replacement with equal amounts of a donor's blood)
Context examples:
The disease can also spread through contaminated food, a blood transfusion, a donated organ or from mother to baby during pregnancy.
(Chagas Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
It is used to give intravenous fluids, blood transfusions, and chemotherapy and other drugs, and for taking blood samples.
(Central venous access catheter, NCI Dictionary)
Most blood transfusions go very smoothly.
(Blood Transfusion and Donation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Treatments include blood transfusions, blood and marrow stem cell transplants, and medicines.
(Aplastic Anemia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Severe cases can be treated with blood transfusions or medicine.
(An overlooked role for lungs in blood formation, NIH)
They might involve medicines, blood transfusions or a bone marrow transplant.
(Bone Marrow Diseases, NIH)
For a blood transfusion, the ABO blood group system is used to match the blood type of the donor and the person receiving the transfusion.
(ABO Blood Group, NCI Dictionary)
General term for hemodialysis, plasmapheresis, blood transfusions, and related procedures involving autologous removal, alteration, and replacement of patients' blood or blood components.
(Blood Treatment, NCI Thesaurus)
Antihistamines are used to prevent fevers in patients receiving blood transfusions and to treat allergies, coughs, and colds.
(Antihistamine, NCI Dictionary)
Every year, millions of people in the United States receive life-saving blood transfusions.
(Blood Transfusion and Donation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
