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[ noun ] pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels)

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(Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)

As early as 1913 Ghoreyeb and Karsner demonstrated with perfusion studies in dogs that bronchial_artery flow would remain constant at a certain low level when pressure was maintained in the pulmonary_artery and vein , but that increases in bronchial_artery flow would occur in response to a relative drop in pulmonary_artery pressure .

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insertion perfuse

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