perfuse
verb
per·fuse
(ˌ)pər-ˈfyüz 
perfused; perfusing
1
: suffuse
2
a
: to cause to flow or spread : diffuse
b
: to force a fluid through (an organ or tissue) especially by way of the blood vessels
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After the hearts were perfused, the tissue and the perfusate or perfusion liquid were analyzed and other data were collected including pressure, flow, and ultrasound to see how the heart contracted.
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Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 22 July 2024
Devices for perfusing hearts and livers were approved in late 2021.
—Ted Alcorn, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Inside that device, the blood passed through a membrane that functioned like an artificial lung, and then it was pumped, freshly oxygenated, back into Sauer’s artery to perfuse his body — and most important, his brain.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Activities for people with dementia are usually perfused with nostalgia, turning away from the difficult present to relive what remains of the past.
—Kat McGowan, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
Recent research suggests that mycorrhizal networks also perfuse prairies, grasslands, chaparral and Arctic tundra — essentially everywhere there is life on land.
—Julia Skinner, Longreads, 16 July 2022
Several thousand patients had such severe problems with their hearts and lungs that doctors had to divert their blood out of their bodies and perfuse it with oxygen by machine—a last ditch treatment known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2012
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Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 22 July 2024
Devices for perfusing hearts and livers were approved in late 2021.
—Ted Alcorn, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Inside that device, the blood passed through a membrane that functioned like an artificial lung, and then it was pumped, freshly oxygenated, back into Sauer’s artery to perfuse his body — and most important, his brain.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Activities for people with dementia are usually perfused with nostalgia, turning away from the difficult present to relive what remains of the past.
—Kat McGowan, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
Recent research suggests that mycorrhizal networks also perfuse prairies, grasslands, chaparral and Arctic tundra — essentially everywhere there is life on land.
—Julia Skinner, Longreads, 16 July 2022
Several thousand patients had such severe problems with their hearts and lungs that doctors had to divert their blood out of their bodies and perfuse it with oxygen by machine—a last ditch treatment known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2012
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“Perfuse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfuse. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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perfuse
transitive verb
per·fuse
(ˌ)pər-ˈfyüz
perfused; perfusing
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