perfuse

Verb

perfuse (third-person singular simple present perfuses, present participle perfusing, simple past and past participle perfused)

1. (transitive) To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light.
   • Tissues can be broadly classified as poorly-perfused, adequately perfused and well-perfused on this basis as shown in Table 2.1. Note how organs with a relatively small mass, such as the heart and brain, only require a modest blood flow to perfuse them well.2001, Neena Washington, Clive Washington, Clive Wilson, Physiological Pharmaceutics: Barriers to Drug Absorption, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis, page 30
   • As a patient has decreased ability to perfuse tissue, conversion of glucose into carbon dioxide and energy in the cellular level is also decreased.2010, Andrew J. Rosenfeld, Sharon M. Dial, Clinical Pathology for the Veterinary Team, Wiley (Wiley-Blackwell), page 191
2. (transitive) To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body.
   • When AVP was perfused into punctate regions in the brain of the sheep or rabbit, the pyrogen-induced fever was suppressed.1985, William de Ruhe et al., “14: Release of Arginine Vasopressin from the Brain”, in Alejandro Bayón, René Drucker-Colín, editors, In VIVO Perfusion and Release of Neroactive substances: Methods...
   • The change in the ratio of the uptake of xylose and urea could not be explained just by an alteration in UWL resistance or by a change in the laminar flow properties of the perfused fluid.2001, Alan B. R. Thomson, Gary Wild, Lipid Absorption and the Unstirred layers, Charles M. Mansbach II, Patrick Tso, Arnis Kuksis (editors), Intestinal Lipid Metabolism, Kluwer Academic / Plenum...