How to Use transfusion in a Sentence

transfusion

noun

• Without a transfusion her chances of survival were slim.
• Staff restarted his heart and gave him a transfusion of 2.5 liters of blood.
  — Alan Cullison, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
• To save her life, Bruce gives her a blood transfusion and, well…the rest is history.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 20 May 2022
• Never mind that White, who was not gay, got the disease from a blood transfusion.
  — Chris Sikich, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2020
• Why can’t a person with type A blood receive a transfusion of type B blood?
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 30 June 2020
• Imagine going to the doctor for a cough and getting a transfusion of blood from a goat.
  — Jeffrey M. Sturek, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2020
• At its worst, the blood loss could put women at the point of needing a transfusion and even at risk for a heart attack or stroke.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2023
• Blood that is supposed to be kept cold before a transfusion isn't.
  — Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2021
• Of these, 39 did not require a red blood cell transfusion for at least 12 months after the treatment.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
• Lopez was bleeding at the cannula sites, as well, and would need a transfusion.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• As a nurse, Marcia Purol used her hands to give chemotherapy and blood transfusion.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Dec. 2022
• The parasite wrecks the body so quickly that by the time children are taken to the hospital, many are in dire need of a blood transfusion.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli Kang-Chun Cheng, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• The remaining three had more than a 70 percent reduction in the need for red cell transfusions.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
• In September, Stokes went to the hospital for a blood transfusion but had a troubling cough.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021
• The remaining three had more than a 70 percent reduction in the need for transfusions.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
• His red blood cell count was so low that Carrizo needed a presurgery blood transfusion.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2019
• Such transfusions may have helped a small number of patients in China, but much more study is needed.
  — CBS News, 30 Mar. 2020
• But Debbie had read a report weeks earlier about a new disease no one knew much about, but the risks of a blood transfusion were very, very clear to her.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2020
• Williams and another nurse prepared the blood transfusion, each confirming that the blood types matched.
  — Joseph Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2022
• Gauthier would need a full blood transfusion during the flight.
  — Mark Young, orlandosentinel.com, 26 July 2021
• But after the transfusion her blood pressure went back up quickly.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• She and Mitchell’s team of physicians prescribed a series of blood transfusions, and the baby improved rapidly.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2019
• The mother of Kripal Mandal’s five children, meanwhile, must regularly take one of them to the city for a blood transfusion and search for food on the way home.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2022
• The family next tried to get Indira a transfusion of plasma from a survivor of covid-19.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
• In one, the virus triggered a strong immune response during transfusion of the virus, which had to be discontinued.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
• If there are signs of fetal distress, the fetus may need to be treated with transfusion of RhD-negative blood.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2022
• The daughter, Patricia, had a bad reaction to a transfusion Bach was said to have performed.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
• An innocent victim would be, like, a white person who had a blood transfusion.
  — Matt Brennantelevision Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
• Zuendel was joined by his wife and two daughters who all flew in from Colorado for the transfusion at the healthcare facility in Gilbert.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2021
• They're only avoided if transfusion patients receive the right kind of blood.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024