Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mistransfuse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-trans-fuse
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.

Example Sentences

"On another occasion a patient was similarly mistransfused at another hospital where these controls had not been used ."
"Recipient or donor unit identification errors will result in an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction for one of every three packed RBC (PRBC) units mistransfused."
"An analysis of cases in the UK during 1996-2006 where blood components had been mistransfused showed that laboratory errors were implicated in up to 34% of incidents."
"They further demonstrated the relative safety of the 100,000 units of group O universal donor red cells given, in that all seven fatal hemolytic transfusion reactions in Vietnam occurred in patients receiving crossmatched but mistransfused blood."

Etymology

From mis- + transfuse.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

mistransfuses (present, singular) mistransfusing (participle, present) mistransfused (participle, past) mistransfused (past)

Questions

What does mistransfuse mean?: To transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.
Where does mistransfuse come from?: From mis- + transfuse.

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