Definition of "perfuse" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light.

2. (transitive) To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body.

   • 2001, Alan B. R. Thomson, Gary Wild, Lipid Absorption and the Unstirred layers, Charles M. Mansbach II, Patrick Tso, Arnis Kuksis (editors), Intestinal Lipid Metabolism, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, page 140, The change in the ratio of the uptake of xylose and urea could not be explained just by an alteration in UWL resistance or by a change in the laminar flow properties of the perfused fluid.