PERFUSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perfusion mean? 

• PERFUSION (noun)
  The noun PERFUSION has 1 sense:

1. pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels)

  Familiarity information: PERFUSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERFUSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("perfusion" is a kind of...):

insertion; introduction; intromission (the act of putting one thing into another)

Derivation:

perfuse (force a fluid through (a body part or tissue))

 Context examples 

Also called continuous hyperthermic peritoneal perfusion.

(CHPP, NCI Dictionary)

A state of hypoperfusion that does not support normal organ perfusion or function.

(Hemodynamic Instability, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon PET imaging, tumor blood flow can be visualized and tumor perfusion can be assessed.

(Copper Cu 62-PTSM, NCI Thesaurus)

A vessel segment attached to a coronary artery to facilitate myocardial perfusion.

(Coronary Artery Graft, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

This agent selectively activates the dopamine D1-like receptor, thereby causing vasodilatation and increasing renal perfusion.

(Fenoldopam Mesylate, NCI Thesaurus)

In regional perfusion, a specific area of the body (usually an arm or a leg) receives high doses of anticancer drugs through a blood vessel.

(Chemotherapeutic Perfusion, NCI Dictionary)

Perfusion is performed under the surgical microscope by inserting the needle in the posterior-inferior aspect of the tympanic membrane.

(Intratympanic Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

This inactivates fibrinogen and leads to a reduction in blood viscosity, increases blood flow and perfusion of the microcirculation.

(Ancrod, NCI Thesaurus)

Perfusion of blood through the myocardium.

(Myocardial Blood Flow, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called magnetic resonance perfusion imaging.

(Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Dictionary)