blood transfusions
Life-giving fluid exchanges
Blood transfusions are medical procedures in which blood or blood components are transferred into a patient's bloodstream, typically through an intravenous line.
Transfusions replace blood lost through surgery, injury, or illness, or provide components the body cannot produce adequately: She needed several blood transfusions after the accident.
The plural often appears in discussions of medical treatment or blood banking.
- donorOne who contributes freely
- bagFlexible carrying container
- crossmatchingPre-transfusion blood verification
- anemiaRed cell deficiency
- thalassemiaHereditary hemoglobin production defect
recipient · universal donor · compatibility · health care · typed · hemolysis · Rh factor · clotting factors · plasma · IV · needle stick · hematology · antibodies · saline · donation · red cells · sickle cell disease · medicine
- MASHHawkeye, Klinger, Korea, Korean War, meatball surgery
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, army surgeon, combat medicine
- war medicinecombat medic, combat medics, field hospital, field hospitals, field surgery
- critical systemsavionics, flight control, pacemakers, life support, nuclear reactors
- blood disordersanemia, sickle cell anemia, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, leukemia
- Rare Disease Drugsgene therapy
blood transfusionsbloodletting
Therapeutic withdrawal of fluid
exsanguination · blood donation · phlebotomy · bleeding out · blood draw
blood transfusionsdialysis
Mechanical blood filtration
apheresis · hemodialysis · blood purification · bloodletting
blood, bloody, bleeding, bloodshed, blooded, bloodthirsty, bloodbath, bloods, transfusion