autotransfusion
noun
autotransfusion is a noun meaning “A blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood, extracted previously” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-O-T-R-A-N-S-F-U-S-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of autotransfusion is autotransfusions.
What does autotransfusion mean?
noun
- 1
A blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood, extracted previously.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of autotransfusion
- autotransfusions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is autotransfusion?
Autotransfusion appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Autotransfusion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense blood transfusion in which a person receives their own blood:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | autotransfusion, auto-transfusion |
| German | Autotransfusion |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does autotransfusion come from?
From auto- + transfusion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).