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   per·fuse

   /pərˈfyo͞oz/

   verb

   • 1. permeate or suffuse (something) with a liquid, color, quality, etc.: "Glaser perfused the yellow light with white"
   • ▪ supply (an organ or tissue) with a fluid, typically treated blood or a blood substitute, by circulating it through blood vessels or other natural channels: "the transplanted kidney is perfused at low pressure by retrograde flow"

   Word 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’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. perfusive adjective

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