Etymology

perfusionist

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Today it means: A trained clinician who operates the heart-lung machine during cardiac and other surgeries. Full definition →

English perfusion ← Middle French perfusion ← Latin perfūsiō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Italic*peri-
  3. Latinper-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰew-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰewd-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰunédti
  7. Proto-Italic*hundō
  8. Latinfundō
  9. Latinperfundō
  10. Latinperfūsiō
  11. Middle Frenchperfusion
  12. Englishperfusion
  13. English todayperfusionist

From perfusion + -ist.

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