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perfusate

[ per-fyoo-zeyt, -zit ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical, Surgery.
  1. a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of perfusate1

1910–15; perfuse + -ate 1, probably on the model of filtrate, precipitate

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