perfuse
Verb
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Verb
perfuse (perfuses, present participle perfusing; past and past participle perfused)
- (transitive) To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light.
- 2001, Neena Washington, Clive Washington, Clive Wilson, Physiological Pharmaceutics: Barriers to Drug Absorption, Taylor & Francis, 2nd Edition, page 30 ↗,
- Tissues can be broadly classified as poorly-perfused, adequately perfused and well-perfused on this basis as shown in Table 2.1. Note how organs with a relatively small mass, such as the heart and brain, only require a modest blood flow to perfuse them well.
- 2010, Andrew J. Rosenfeld, Sharon M. Dial, Clinical Pathology for the Veterinary Team, Wiley (Wiley-Blackwell), page 191 ↗,
- As a patient has decreased ability to perfuse tissue, conversion of glucose into carbon dioxide and energy in the cellular level is also decreased.
- 1989, Klaus Berwing, Martin Schlepper, Peter Kremer, Hassan Bahavar, Clinical trials with a new myocardial contrast agent, Meerbaum, Richard S. Meltzer (editors), Myocardial Contrast Two-dimensional Echocardiography, Kluwer Academic, page 165 ↗,
- The right coronary artery system perfused the inferior and infero-septal regions in 89% of the patients, identified with a right dominant system. The anterolateral papillary muscle was perfused from the left coronary system in all cases.
- 2001, Neena Washington, Clive Washington, Clive Wilson, Physiological Pharmaceutics: Barriers to Drug Absorption, Taylor & Francis, 2nd Edition, page 30 ↗,
- (transitive) To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body.
- 1985, William de Ruhe, et al., 14: Release of Arginine Vasopressin from the Brain, Alejandro Bayón, René Drucker-Colín (editors), In VIVO Perfusion and Release of Neroactive substances: Methods and Strategies, Academic Press, page 240 ↗,
- When AVP was perfused into punctate regions in the brain of the sheep or rabbit, the pyrogen-induced fever was suppressed.
- 2001, Alan B. R. Thomson, Gary Wild, Lipid Absorption and the Unstirred layers, Charles M. Mansbach II, Patrick Tso, Arnis Kuksis (editors), Intestinal Lipid Metabolism, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, page 140 ↗,
- The change in the ratio of the uptake of xylose and urea could not be explained just by an alteration in UWL resistance or by a change in the laminar flow properties of the perfused fluid.
- 2009, Domenico Ribatti, History of Research on Tumor Angiogenesis, Springer, page 5 ↗,
- To test which solution was optimal for tissue survival, they perfused these solutions through the vasculature of canine thyroid glands, by using an apparatus with a silicone rubber oxygenator (Fig. 1.3).
- 1985, William de Ruhe, et al., 14: Release of Arginine Vasopressin from the Brain, Alejandro Bayón, René Drucker-Colín (editors), In VIVO Perfusion and Release of Neroactive substances: Methods and Strategies, Academic Press, page 240 ↗,
- perfusable
- perfusion
- German: durchströmen, perfundieren
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