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PERFUSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("perfusion" is a kind of...):
insertion; introduction; intromission (the act of putting one thing into another)
Derivation:
perfuse (force a fluid through (a body part or tissue))
Context examples:
Shock resulting from insufficient blood volume for the maintenance of adequate cardiac output, blood pressure and tissue perfusion.
(Hypovolemic Shock, NCI Thesaurus)
A medical device that increases myocardial oxygen perfusion while at the same time increasing cardiac output.
(Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
An electrocardiographic finding of ST and T wave changes consistent with impaired myocardial perfusion.
(Myocardial Ischemia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
Pathologic material in a vessel that obstructs myocardial perfusion.
(Coronary Vessel Lesion, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
A radiopharmaceutical composed of the nonspecific perfusion agent ethylglyoxal bis(thiosemicarbazone) (ETS) linked to the beta-emitting, radioisotope copper Cu 62, with potential tumor imaging activity upon positron emitting tomography (PET).
(Copper Cu 62 Ethylglyoxal Bis(thiosemicarbazone), NCI Thesaurus)
Progression of anaphylaxis into systemic shock, which is characterized by significant reduction in tissue perfusion which leads to hypoxia and hypotension, and can lead to death if untreated.
(Anaphylactic shock, NCI Thesaurus)
Perfusion of blood through the cerebrum.
(Cerebral Blood Flow, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon intracoronary infusion after a myocardial infarction (MI), autologous bone marrow-derived CD34/CXCR4-positive stem cells may preserve cardiac muscle cells and prevent apoptosis; thus improving myocardial perfusion.
(Autologous Bone Marrow-derived CD34/CXCR4-positive Stem Cells AMR-001, NCI Thesaurus)
A diagnostic procedure to assess the circulatory perfusion of an anatomical location using a magnetic resonance imaging machine.
(Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Thesaurus)
By exerting a chronotropic and inotropic effect, arbutamine mimics the cardiac stress caused by exercise that may prevent adequate tissue perfusion and oxygenation, and may provoke myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease.
(Arbutamine, NCI Thesaurus)
