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Webster 1913 Edition
Perfuse
Per-fuse′
(pẽr-fūz′)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Perfused
(pẽr-fūzd′)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Perfusing
.] [L.
perfusus
, p. p. of perfundere
to pour over; per + fundere
to pour.] 1.
To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
Harvey.
Webster 1828 Edition
Perfuse
PERFU'SE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
perfuse
perfuse
English
Verb
perfuse (third-person singular simple present perfuses, present participle perfusing, simple past and past participle perfused)
- (transitive) To permeate or suffuse something, either with a liquid or with light
- (transitive) To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body
Related terms
Translations
to permeate or suffuse
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Latin
Participle
perfūse
- vocative masculine singular of perfūsus
References
- perfuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “perfuse”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.