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perfuse

Syllabification: (per·fuse)

Pronunciation: /pərˈfyo͞oz/

Definition of perfuse

verb

[with object]

permeate or suffuse (something) with a liquid, color, quality, etc.:Glaser perfused the yellow light with white figurativesuch expression is perfused by rhetoric
Medicine supply (an organ, tissue, or body) with a fluid, typically treated blood or a blood substitute, by circulating it through blood vessels or other natural channels.

Derivatives

perfusion
perfusionist

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'cause to flow through or away'): from Latin perfus- 'poured through', from the verb perfundere, from per- 'through' + fundere 'pour'