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mistransfuse

mistransfuse verb: to transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.

Verb

mistransfuse (third-person singular simple present mistransfuses, present participle mistransfusing, simple past and past participle mistransfused)

  1. To transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.
    • On another occasion a patient was similarly mistransfused at another hospital where these controls had not been used .1956, M.H. King, “Blood Transfusion in the Station Hospital”, in Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volume 102, page 9
    • Recipient or donor unit identification errors will result in an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction for one of every three packed RBC (PRBC) units mistransfused.2011, Paul G Barash, Bruce F Cullen, Robert K Stoelting, Clinical Anesthesia

Forms of mistransfuse

third-person singular presentmistransfuses
present participlemistransfusing
past participlemistransfused
pastmistransfused

Origin of mistransfuse

From mis- + transfuse.

Questions about mistransfuse

What does mistransfuse mean?
Mistransfuse means to transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.
What part of speech is mistransfuse?
Mistransfuse is a verb.
What is the past tense of mistransfuse?
The past tense of mistransfuse is mistransfused.

Words near mistransfuse in the dictionary

  1. mistransformation
  2. mistransformations
  3. mistransformed
  4. mistransforming
  5. mistransforms
  6. mistransfuse
  7. mistransfused
  8. mistransfuses
  9. mistransfusing
  10. mistransfusion
  11. mistransfusions

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