mistransfuse

Etymology

From mis- + transfuse.

mistransfuse means to transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.

verb

To transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.“On another occasion a patient was similarly mistransfused at another hospital where these controls had not been used .”