Phrase guide

blood transfusion

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The act or process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously; an instance of it.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

Examples

  • A blood transfusion stabilized her condition until surgery to stop her internal bleeding could begin.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: haemotransfusion, hemotransfusion

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: transfusion[Appendix:Glossary

2

noun

Meaning 2

A refreshing or reinvigoration of something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, figuratively, uncommon, uncountable

Examples

  • Our extramural sports program was on life support until a generous philanthropic donation gave it a much-needed blood transfusion.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: transfusion

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: insertion, introduction, intromission

Narrower terms: exchange transfusion

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: bloedoortapping — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Arabic: نَقْل دَم (naql dam) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Aragonese: transfusión de sangre — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Armenian: արյան փոխներարկում (aryan pʻoxnerarkum) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Asturian: tresfusión de sangre — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Azerbaijani: qanköçürmə — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Basque: odol-transfusio — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Bengali: রক্ত সঞ্চারণ (rokto śoncaron) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Bulgarian: кръвопреливане (krǎvoprelivane) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Carpathian Rusyn: трансфу́зія кро́вли (transfúzija króvly) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Catalan: transfusió de sang — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Chinese Mandarin: 輸血 /输血 (shūxuè, shūxuě, shūxiě) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Czech: krevní transfúze — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Danish: blodtransfusion — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Dhivehi: ލޭއެޅުން (lēeḷun̊) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Dutch: bloedtransfusie — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Esperanto: sangotransfuzo — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Finnish: verensiirto — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • French: transfusion sanguine — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • French: transfusion — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • West-Frisian: boedtransfúzje — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Galician: transfusión de sangue — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • German: Transfusion — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • German: Bluttransfusion — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • German: Blutübertragung — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Greek: μετάγγιση αίματος (metángisi aímatos) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Hebrew: עירוי דם — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Hindi: रक्ताधान (raktādhān) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Hungarian: vérátömlesztés — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Hungarian: transzfúzió — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Hungarian: vértranszfúzió — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Indonesian: transfusi darah — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Interlingua: transfusion sanguine — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Irish: fuilaistriú — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Italian: trasfusione — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Japanese: 輸血 (yuketsu) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Kazakh: қан құю (qan qūü) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Korean: 수혈 (suhyeol) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Kyrgyz: кан куюу (kan kuyuu) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Latvian: asins pārliešana — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Lithuanian: kraujo perpylimas — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Malay: pemindahan darah — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Malay: transfusi — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Malay: transfusi darah — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Māori: huarangatanga toto — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Mongolian: цус сэлбэлт (cus selbelt) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Navajo: dił iih nádziid — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Norwegian: blodtransfusjon — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blodoverføring — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: blodoverføring — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Occitan: transfusion sanguina — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Pashto: د وینې تېرَونه — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Persian: انتقال خون — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Polish: transfuzja — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Polish: transfuzja krwi — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Portuguese: transfusão de sangue — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Romanian: transfuzie de sânge — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Romanian: transfuzie sanguină — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Russian: перелива́ние кро́ви (perelivánije króvi) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Russian: гемотрансфу́зия (gemotransfúzija) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Russian: трансфу́зия (transfúzija) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Serbo-Croatian: transfuzija krvi — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Serbo-Croatian: трансфузија крви — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Slovene: transfuzija krvi — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Spanish: transfusión — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Spanish: transfusión de sangre — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Swahili: upaji wa damu — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Swedish: blodtransfusion — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Swedish: blodöverföring — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Tagalog: pagsasalin ng dugo — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Tajik: хунгузаронӣ (xunguzaroni) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Tamil: குருதி மாற்றீடு (kuruti māṟṟīṭu) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Tatar: кан күчерү (qan küçerü) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Thai: การถ่ายเลือด — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Turkish: kan nakli — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Ukrainian: перелива́ння кро́ві (perelyvánnja króvi) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Ukrainian: гемотрансфу́зія (hemotransfúzija) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Ukrainian: трансфу́зія (transfúzija) — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Uzbek: qon quyish — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Vietnamese: truyền máu — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual
  • Welsh: trallwysiad gwaed — taking blood from one and giving it to another individual