perfuse

== English == === Etymology === From 1520s, from Latin perfusus, past participle of perfundo (“to pour over, besprinkle”) from per- + fundo (“to pour”) (from nasalised form of PIE root *gheu- ("to pour")); compare diffuse, suffuse. === Pronunciation === === Verb === perfuse (third-person singular simple present perfuses, present participle perfusing, simple past and past participle perfused) (transitive) To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light. (transitive) To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body. 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== perfusable perfusion ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === frees up == Latin == === Participle === perfūse vocative masculine singular of perfūsus === References === “perfuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “perfuse”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.