fus-, fun-, fund-, fut-, found- +

1. To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or light.
2. To overspread, as with a vapor, fluid, or color.

1. The act of pouring a fluid over the body.
2. The condition of being wet with a fluid.
3. A spreading out of a body fluid from a vessel into the surrounding tissues.

1. Spreading through.
2. Functioning to distribute, to allot, or to disperse.
3. Characterized by welling up or spreading over.

1. Diffusion of fluids, either gaseous or liquid, as influenced by the temperature of the fluid.
2. A process in which temperature differentiation within a fluid mixture causes one constituent to flow differently than the mixture as a whole.

1. To pour, as a fluid, from one container to another.
2. To cause to be imparted or instilled.
3. In medicine, to transfer (blood) from one person or animal to another one; performing a transfusion.

Capable of being transfused or to administer a transfusion.

1. The act of pouring from one container into another one; hence, transference, or the transmission of something.
2. In medicine, The transfer of blood from one person (or animal) to the veins or arteries of another person (or animal); such as, the injection of blood or a blood component into the bloodstream.
3. A similar transfer of any other fluid into a vein for a therapeutic purpose; such as, a saline solution.

One of a variety of reactions that can occur as a result of blood transfusions.

The most serious is the response of the recipient when incompatible blood is administered, in which case massive intravascular (occurring within blood vessels) clumping and lysis (destruction) of red blood cells occur.

1. Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) is the result of an intrauterine blood transfusion from one twin to another twin.

TTTS occurs in monochorionic, monozygotic twins. The donor twin is often smaller and anemic at birth. The recipient twin is usually larger and plethoric at birth.

2. Also known as Feto-Fetal Transfusion Syndrome (FFTS) and Twin Oligohydramnios-Polyhydramnios Sequence (TOPS) is a complication with high morbidity and mortality that can affect identical twins or higher multiple pregnancies where two or more fetuses share a common (monochorionic) placenta.

In twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, the twins share not only the same placenta but some of the same blood circulation; in other words, they essentially share a single blood supply. This allows the transfusion of blood from one twin (the donor) to the other (the recipient).

The donor twin becomes small and anemic, and the recipient twin becomes large and overloaded with blood.

The transfusion causes the donor twin to have decreased blood volume, retarding the donor's development and growth, and also decreased urinary output, leading to a lower than normal level of amniotic fluid (becoming oligohydramnios).

The blood volume of the recipient is increased, which can strain the donor's heart and eventually lead to heart failure, and also higher than normal urinary output, which can lead to excess amniotic fluid (becoming polyhydramnios).

In law, a term used in insurance statutes providing for penalties for an insurer's conduct in unjustifiably refusing to pay insurance claims.