perfusate

[ per-fyoo-zeyt, -zit ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical, Surgery.

1. a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.

Word History and Origins

Origin of perfusate¹

1910–15; perfuse + -ate ¹, probably on the model of filtrate, precipitate

Example Sentences

The team hooked up the animals’ circulatory system to OrganEx, a system that pumps a mixture of blood and a “perfusate” of fluid-borne nutrients around the body.

From Scientific American

So this perfusate was optimized to control those things as well.

From Scientific American

Inside, the fluid that is circulating is actually a one-to-one mixture of the animal’s endogenous blood and our perfusate.

From Scientific American

Why didn’t you use the animal’s blood alone rather than combining it with perfusate?

From Scientific American

ANDRIJEVIC: Then, once you restore the circulation, you can actually reach out to those organs with our perfusate, a specifically tailored drug cocktail that affects the cells and tells them, “Don’t die; there is hope.”

From Scientific American