autotransfusion

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auto- +‎ transfusion

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autotransfusion (plural autotransfusions)

  1. (medicine) A blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood, extracted previously.
    • 1877, Dr. L. Lesser, “Transfusion and Autotransfusion”, in Clinical Lectures on Subjects Connected with Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics:
      Strange to say, the method of autotransfusion, as it has been happily named by the French, has, notwithstanding its simplicity, failed to obtain in practice the reception it deserves.

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