1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry II. iii. iv. 123 If the first Avatar describe the deluge itself, the second, which describes an emerging of the earth from a superfused inundation, must..exhibit to us a circumstance which immediately succeeded the deluge.

1853 Notes & Queries 12 Feb. 152/1 The red hue of fruit seen through a partially superfused white medium—meal over mulberries, cream over strawberries.

1953 Brit. Jrnl. Pharmacol. & Chemotherapy 8 322/2 Stoppage of the flow may itself cause contraction of superfused muscle.

1971 Science 23 July 337/3 The superfused fluid was collected every 1 or 2 minutes, and its ³H activity was counted.

1995 Environm. Health Perspectives 103 55/2 In isolated superfused goldfish retina, GnRH has actions consistent with an excitatory neurotransmitter.

2009 Biol. Bull. 217 57/2 Pulse rate was not significantly affected by other concentrations of superfused 5-HT.

1860 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 20 176 The superfused substance holding for a greater or less time a quantity of heat larger than it should normally possess, retains, although in the solid form, the properties of a liquid.

1892 Q. Jrnl. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 15 51 The hail stones..appeared to have been produced by sudden cooling of superfused water.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 568/1 It is generally possible to cool a liquid several degrees below its normal freezing-point without a separation of crystals... A liquid in this state is said to be ‘undercooled’ or ‘superfused’.

1994 G. Burchel & H. Tomlinson tr. G. Deleuze & F. Guattari What is Philos.? (2003) 225 The authors take the example of the crystallization of a superfused liquid.