Disperse vs Perfuse - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between disperse and perfuse

is that disperse is to scatter in different directions while perfuse is to permeate or suffuse something, either with a liquid or with light.

(intransitive) To scatter in different directions

The Jews are dispersed among all nations.

* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.

* Cowper

Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .

(intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate

(intransitive) To disseminate

(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract

(intransitive) To distribute throughout

* Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite similarity.

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(perfus)

To permeate or suffuse something, either with a liquid or with light

To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body