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

(Latin > French: pour, melt, blend)


affuse
To pour upon; to sprinkle, as with a liquid.
affusion
1. The pouring on of water or other liquid, as in the rite of baptism.
2. The act of baptizing someone by pouring water on his or her head.
3. Pouring water on the body or any of its parts for therapeutic purposes.
autoinfusion
The use of bandages or other pressure devices that are applied to the extremities to force venous blood towards the heart in patients with dangerous blood loss.
autologous transfusion
A procedure for collecting and storing a patient's own blood several weeks before its anticipated need by the patient.

Alternatively, blood lost during a surgical procedure can be recovered from the operation site and processed for transfusion.

This method of providing blood for an individual is used to prevent the transmission of disease that can occur with the use of donor blood.

autotransfusion, autohemotransfusion, autoreinfusion
1. Withdrawal and re-injection/transfusion of the patient's own blood.
2. Infusion of a patient's own blood, either collected and returned to the body during surgery or transfused from a stored supply.
cadaver blood transfusion
A transfusion using blood obtained from a cadaver within a short time after death.
circumfuse
1. To pour around; to diffuse.
2. To surround as with a fluid.
3. To spread something around something else.
circumfusion
1. The act of pouring or spreading around.
2. The state of being poured around.
confound, confounds, confounding
1. To perplex or to amaze; especially, by a sudden disturbance or surprise; to bewilder; to confuse: "Trying to comprehend the complicated directions for operating his new TV confounded him too much."
2. To throw into confusion or disorder: "The new tax system confounded the people."
3. To throw into increased confusion or disorder.
4. To treat or regard erroneously as identical; to mix or associate by mistake: "What he said confounded truth with errors."
5. To mingle so that the elements cannot be distinguished or separated.
6. To contradict or to refute: "She tried to confound their arguments."
7. Etymology: from Middle English confounden, from Anglo-Norman confundre, from Latin confundere, "to mix together, to confuse"; from com-, "together" + fundere, "to pour".
confounded
1. Confused or perplexed; having caused the inability to think clearly: "These questions even confused the professors."
2. Having mistaken one thing for another, confused.
confounder
Someone who causes confusion, or disorder, in a situation or relationship.
confusable
So similar as to be easily identified for another thing: "The dictionary contained potentially confusable senses of words."
confuse
1. To make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.
2. To make unclear or incomprehensible.
3. To make something hard, or harder, to understand.
confusedly
1. Descriptive of being unable to think with clarity or to act with understanding and intelligence.
2. A reference to the lack of logical order or sense; characterized by being chaotic or jumbled.
confusedness
1. The state or quality of being confused.
2. Unable to think, or reason, clearly or to act sensibly.
3, In no logical or sensible order.

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