Meaning & use
transfusion
A medical procedure in which blood or a blood product is transferred into a patient's bloodstream.
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After losing so much blood in surgery, she needed an emergency transfusion.
The hospital keeps a large supply of donated blood on hand for transfusions.
A note on using this word
Blood transfusion is the standard collocation; the word is almost always used in a medical context.
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