mistransfusion

Etymology

From mis- + transfusion.

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

noun

Transfusion of the wrong blood or to the wrong patient.“The risk of mistransfusion is many times greater than that due to the transmission of HIV or HCV infection by blood.”