transfusion

See also: Transfusion and transfusión

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin transfūsiō.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

transfusion (countable and uncountable, plural transfusions)

1. (medicine) The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another.

   Synonym: blood transfusion

   Coordinate term: infusion

2. The act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another.

   Synonym: decanting

   Coordinate term: infusion

Derived terms

• autotransfusion
• haemotransfusion
• hemotransfusion
• hypertransfusion
• intertransfusion
• microtransfusion
• mistransfusion
• myelotransfusion
• posttransfusion
• pretransfusion
• retransfusion
• transfusional
• transfusionist
• transpoosion
• twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
• xenotransfusion

 

Translations

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

• Arabic: نَقْل اَلدَّم m (naql ad-dam), إِصْفَاق m (ʔiṣfāq)
• Catalan: transfusió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輸血／输血 (zh) (shūxuè or shūxiě)

• Czech: transfuze f
• Danish: transfusion c
• Dutch: transfusie (nl) f
• Esperanto: transfuzo
• Finnish: verensiirto (fi)
• Galician: transfusión f
• German: Transfusion (de), Bluttransfusion (de)
• Greek: μετάγγιση (el) f (metángisi)
• Hungarian: vérátömlesztés (hu), transzfúzió (hu)
• Japanese: 輸血 (ja) (yuketsu)
• Malay: pemindahan darah, transfusi
• Persian: انتقال خون (enteqâl-e xôn)
• Romanian: transfuzie de sânge f, transfuzie (ro) f
• Russian: перелива́ние (ru) n (perelivánije), трансфу́зия (ru) f (transfúzija), перелива́ние кро́ви (ru) n (perelivánije króvi, literally “blood transfusion”), гемотрансфу́зия (ru) f (gemotransfúzija, literally “haemotranfusion”)
• Spanish: transfusión (es) f
• Ukrainian: перелива́ння n (perelyvánnja), трансфу́зія f (transfúzija), перелива́ння кро́ві n (perelyvánnja króvi, literally “blood transfusion”), гемотрансфу́зія f (hemotransfúzija, literally “haemotranfusion”)

the act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another

• Czech: přelití n, přelévání n
• German: Umfüllen n, Umschütten n, Umfüllung f
• Greek: μετάγγιση (el) f (metángisi), μετακένωση (el) f (metakénosi)
• Romanian: transvazare (ro) f
• Russian: перелива́ние (ru) n (perelivánije)
• Ukrainian: перелива́ння n (perelyvánnja)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsfūsiōnem.

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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.