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
• decanting (pouring liquid)

Translations

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

• Catalan: transfusió f
• Chinese:

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

• 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
• Japanese: 輸血 (ja) (yuketsu)
• Malay: pemindahan darah, transfusi
• 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, 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

• 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)

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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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.