transfusion

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Scientists have made a discovery among the potential for an increased risk of fatality among traumatic brain injury patients who suffer from a TBI incident and then receive blood transfusion, which is a common practice in treating brain injured victims.

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  1. noun The act or process of transfusing.
  2. noun Medicine The transfer of whole blood or blood products from one individual to another.

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  • Although the transfusion was stopped, she deteriorated on the Intensive Therapy Unit and died some hours later What about the other patient Mr. Peyer was fortunate in not actually receiving his units of blood. —  EQMM,June2006
  • Though he had lost enough blood to require a transfusion, the wounds themselves were not life threatening. —  TAMI HOAG
  • Eppes says it's primarily transmitted by sexual contact or blood born contact, like a transfusion-the only other way is through body fluid contact. —  Local Headlines - ABC 13
  • Blood transfusion bags have been depleted and at least one death occurs daily due to the inability for blood transfusion, the report added. —  TamilNet Newswire
  • SEGUIN - Not that anybody might want it for a transfusion, but a half dozen people "donated" blood to Guadalupe County over the recent holiday weekend. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
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  1. from French transfusion =Spanish transfusion =Portuguese transfusão =Italian transfusione, from Latin transfusio (n-), a pouring from one vessel into another, from transfundere, past participle transfusus, pour from one vessel into another: see transfuse.
 

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