superfusev.1
/ˌsuːpəˈfjuːz/, /ˌsjuːpəˈfjuːz/, U.S. /ˌsupərˈfjuz/ 1. † a. transitive. To pour (a liquid) over or on to something. Frequently with on. Obsolete.In quot. 1857 figurative.
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1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. v, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Zv Either a Ptisane, or decoction..must be superfused.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 449 This Holy Spirit from the beginning of the World is said..to be superfused on the waters.
1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 491 Pouring first a very cold liquor into a Matras, & superfusing on it another.
1857 Westm. Rev. July 160/2 The same curious process is taking place..which peacefully or violently is superfusing the arts and knowledge of Europe over the feebler systems of Oriental barbarism.
b. transitive. Physiology. To perform superfusion (superfusion n.1 2) upon (tissue); to employ (liquid) in superfusion. Also (of a liquid): to flow over the surface of (tissue). Cf. perfuse v. 3, perifuse v.
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1953 Brit. Jrnl. Pharmacol. & Chemotherapy 8 322/1 Two tissues were suspended one above the other and the same fluid was superfused over them both.
1964 Brit. Jrnl. Pharmacol. & Chemotherapy 23 360 The blood superfused the second tissue and was then returned to the jugular vein by gravity.
1975 Nature 25 Dec. 754/2 The exposed suboesophageal ganglia were superfused with continuously flowing snail Ringer.
1978 Nature 29 June 765/2 Each stream of blood superfused a separate collagen strip which was excised from the Achilles tendon of a rabbit.
2003 J. Y. Westcott & A. Sala in P. B. Curtis-Prior Eicosanoids viii. 98/1 Blood taken from an artery by means of a peristaltic pump was used to superfuse an isolated organ cascade.
2. transitive. To sprinkle. Usually with with. Now rare.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > subject to supercooling
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > sprinkle liquid or something with liquid [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle something with liquid
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > low temperature physics > subject to supercooling [verb (transitive)]
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle > sprinkle (a surface) with something
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1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee iii. 27 A young man of the Hebrews being desperately sick and calling for baptism, in want of water was superfused with sand.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 409 ‘Sprinkled’ [with water], or rather affused or superfused.
a1864 W. S. Landor Poems (1892) II. 310 The last late sunbeam of the summer sky Had fallen, and with dew far superfused The falling meadows of Parensias paled, Far as the Albula and Latian plain.
1922 C. Morley Plum Pudding 219 Prom the office of the Literary Editor..one may study the wild pinnacle of Woolworth, faintly superfused with a brightness of gold and pink.
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superˈfusing adj. (of a liquid) that superfuses tissue.
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1962 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 109 330/2 The superfusing fluid was buffered with imidazol (20 mM) and histidine (20 mM).
1980 Nature 3 Jan. 93/1 (caption) Potassium chloride was added..to the superfusing fluid for 2-min periods at intervals of 16 min.
2002 C. González et al. in E. E. Bittar Pulmonary Biol. Health & Dis. vii. 120 The release response was greater if the superfusing solution mimicked a respiratory acidosis rather than a metabolic acidosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
superfusev.2
/ˌsuːpəˈfjuːz/, /ˌsjuːpəˈfjuːz/, U.S. /ˌsupərˈfjuz/ Physics. Now rare.
transitive. To cool (a liquid) to a temperature below its freezing point without causing it to solidify; to supercool, to undercool. Also intransitive: (of a liquid) to undergo this process.
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1880 10th Ann. Rep. Deputy Master Mint 43 in Parl. Papers (C. 2559) XVIII. 551 Gold and its alloys with silver or with silver and copper can be ‘superfused’ if cupelled at a high temperature with lead in excess.
1895 Philos. Mag. 39 513 Anhydrous pinacone superfuses considerably, and in the case of the experiments Nos. 32 and 33..it did not solidify till after it had attained the temperature of the calorimeter.
1921 Jrnl. Agric. Res. 15 Jan. 657 The smaller the amount of liquid taken the easier it is to superfuse it, and liquids contained in capillary tubes will remain for long periods of time below their freezing point without solidification taking place.
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