autotransfusion
English
editEtymology
editFrom auto- + transfusion.
Noun
editautotransfusion (plural autotransfusions)
- (medicine) A blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood, extracted previously.
- 1877, Dr. L. Lesser, “Transfusion and Autotransfusion”, in Clinical Lectures on Subjects Connected with Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics:
- Strange to say, the method of autotransfusion, as it has been happily named by the French, has, notwithstanding its simplicity, failed to obtain in practice the reception it deserves.
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editblood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood
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