vt, -fused  -fus*ing  :  to maintain the metabolic or physiological activity of (as an isolated organ) by submitting to a continuous flow of a sustaining medium over the outside <the artificial cerebrospinal fluid … that superfused the isolated cortical tissue -C. D. Richards et al>  su*per*fu*sion n 
 
 
 
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