Etymology

preperfusion

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Today it means: perfusion in advance of some other operation Full definition →

English perfusion ← Middle French perfusion ← Latin perfūsiō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  4. Proto-Italic*prai
  5. Proto-Italic*prai-
  6. Latinprae-
  7. Middle Englishpre-
  8. Englishpre-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  10. Proto-Italic*peri-
  11. Latinper-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰew-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰewd-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰunédti
  15. Proto-Italic*hundō
  16. Latinfundō
  17. Latinperfundō
  18. Latinperfūsiō
  19. Middle Frenchperfusion
  20. Englishperfusion
  21. English todaypreperfusion

From pre- + perfusion.

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