TRANSFUSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transfusion mean? 

• TRANSFUSION (noun)
  The noun TRANSFUSION has 2 senses:

1. the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery

2. the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another

  Familiarity information: TRANSFUSION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSFUSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

blood transfusion; transfusion

Hypernyms ("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 "transfusion"):

exchange transfusion (slow removal of a person's blood and its replacement with equal amounts of a donor's blood)

Derivation:

transfuse (give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("transfusion" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transfusion"):

decantation (the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees)

 Context examples 

Sometimes it is possible to have a transfusion of your own blood.

(Blood Transfusion and Donation, 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)

The children in this study received low-volume red cell transfusions.

(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)

Upon transfusion, anti-CD20-CAR-CD3zeta-4-1BB-expressing autologous T-lymphocyte cells direct T-cells to CD20-expressing tumor cells.

(Anti-CD20-CAR-CD3zeta-4-1BB-expressing Autologous T-lymphocyte Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

If you lose too much blood, you may need a transfusion.

(Blood, NIH)

There must be transfusion of blood at once. Is it you or me?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Treatments include blood transfusions, blood and marrow stem cell transplants, and medicines.

(Aplastic Anemia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Upon transfusion, CD19CAR-CD28 zeta-4-1BB-expressing allogeneic T lymphocytes directs the T-lymphocytes to and induces selective toxicity in CD19-expressing tumor cells.

(CD19CAR-CD28zeta-4-1BB-expressing Allogeneic T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon transfusion, CD138CAR- CD137/TCRzeta -expressing T lymphocytes directs the T-lymphocytes to syndecan-1-expressing tumor cells and induces selective toxicity in those tumor cells.

(CD138CAR-CD137/TCRzeta-expressing T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon transfusion, CD19CAR-CD3zeta-expressing autologous T-lymphocytes are directed to CD19-expressing tumor cells, thereby inducing a selective toxicity only in these tumor cells.

(CD19CAR-CD3zeta-expressing Autologous T lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)