perfusionist

English

WOTD – 2 August 2015

Etymology

From perfusion +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈfjuːʒənɪst/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Noun

perfusionist (plural perfusionists)

  1. A trained clinician who operates the heart-lung machine during cardiac and other surgeries.
    • 2007 June 6, Nick Bunkley, “Transplant Team Dies in Jet Crash; Mechanical Problems Suspected”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      The doctors were joined several hours later by two perfusionists, Richard Chenault II and Richard Lapensee, and all four sped to Willow Run Airport, a cargo terminal in Ypsilanti, Mich., about 15 miles east of the hospital.

Translations

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.