transfusion

See also: Transfusion and transfusión

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

transfusion (countable and uncountable, plural transfusions)

1. (medicine) The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another.
2. The act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another.

Synonyms

• blood transfusion

Translations

medicine: the transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another

• Catalan: transfusió f
• Danish: transfusion c
• Dutch: transfusie (nl) f
• Esperanto: transfuzo
• Finnish: verensiirto (fi)
• Galician: transfusión f
• German: Transfusion (de), Bluttransfusion (de)

• Japanese: 輸血 (ja) (yuketsu)
• Persian: انتقال خون‎ (enteghaal-e khoon)
• Romanian: transfuzie de sânge f, transfuzie (ro) f
• Russian: перелива́ние (ru) n (perelivánije), трансфу́зия (ru) f (transfúzija), перелива́ние кро́ви (ru) n (perelivánije króvi)
• Spanish: transfusión (es) f

the act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another

• German: Umfüllen n, Umschütten n, Umfüllung f
• Romanian: transvazare (ro) f

• Russian: перелива́ние (ru) n (perelivánije)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin transfūsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.fy.zjɔ̃/

Noun

transfusion f (plural transfusions)

1. (medicine) blood transfusion

Further reading

• “transfusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).