Sample sentences for TRANSFUSION

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Definition

the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery;
or: the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another

Yo-Yo Ma continues to play, and it's like the piano and cello are being poured into my body, the same way that the IV and blood transfusions are.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

More nuns arrived, rustling, ancient, speaking German to each other. they carried transfusion equipment, wheeled in trays of glinting implements.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
They've given him four transfusions.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
Call it a blood transfusion.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
They gave you a few transfusions.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
But I don't require him, he's no transfusion.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
When my father was dying in the hospital, there was a desperate last decision to try a blood transfusion.
Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
You can do a blood transfusion or something, right?
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
They spent the next three hours with me, swapping my antibiotics and my blood lines, as I seemed to be reacting badly to the blood transfusions.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
From then on Dr. Numata gave Sadako blood transfusions or shots almost every day.
Eleanor Coerr -- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
But I think we have a little time before you have to worry about a transfusion.
Gloria Naylor -- The Women of Brewster Place
So far I had managed to keep humanly alive through transfusions from books.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
Every bed was occupied, and new cases were left on the stretchers and laid between the beds to take advantage of the transfusion stands.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
I don't have the drugs or antibiotics or blood transfusions for him.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
These blood transfusions are my oil changes.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
The hematocrit, for example? was rising because Jackson was receiving transfusions of whole blood and packed red cells.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
One sister might have died had not Woody provided blood by direct transfusion.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
The doctors decided to give me blood transfusions as well because I was not replacing my own blood as quickly as they would have liked.
Bethany Hamilton -- Soul Surfer
WHO provides reagents for blood transfusions.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
They gave victims liver extract, blood transfusions, and vitamins, especially B. The shortage of supplies and instruments hampered them.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

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