Blood (n.) The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial. |
Blood (n.) Relationship by descent from a common ancestor |
Blood (n.) Descent |
Blood (n.) Descent from parents of recognized breed |
Blood (n.) The fleshy nature of man. |
Blood (n.) The shedding of blood |
Blood (n.) A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. |
Blood (n.) Temper of mind |
Blood (n.) A man of fire or spirit |
Blood (n.) The juice of anything, especially if red. |
Blood (v. t.) To bleed. |
Blood (v. t.) To stain, smear or wet, with blood. |
Blood (v. t.) To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. |
Blood (v. t.) To heat the blood of |
Blood-boltered (a.) Having the hair matted with clotted blood. |
Blood money () Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another. |
Blood money () Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life |
Blood-shotten (a.) Bloodshot. |
Blood vessel () Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein. |
Circulation (n.) The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. |
Circulation (n.) The act of passing from place to place or person to person |
Circulation (n.) Currency |
Circulation (n.) The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated |
Circulation (n.) The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants. |
Dragon's blood () Alt. of Dragon's tail |
Flow () imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. |
Flow (v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid |
Flow (v. i.) To become liquid |
Flow (v. i.) To proceed |
Flow (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties |
Flow (v. i.) To have or be in abundance |
Flow (v. i.) To hang loose and waving |
Flow (v. i.) To rise, as the tide |
Flow (v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. |
Flow (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid |
Flow (v. t.) To cover with varnish. |
Flow (n.) A stream of water or other fluid |
Flow (n.) A continuous movement of something abundant |
Flow (n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river |
Flow (n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. |
Flow (n.) A low-lying piece of watery land |
Half blood () The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both |
Half blood (n.) A person so related to another. |
Half blood (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races |
Perfusion (n.) The act of perfusing. |
Supply (v. t.) To fill up, or keep full |
Supply (v. t.) To serve instead of |
Supply (v. t.) To fill temporarily |
Supply (v. t.) To give |
Supply (n.) The act of supplying |
blood typing | determining a person's blood type by serological methods |
work flow workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done |
transfusion blood transfusion | the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery |
perfusion | pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels) |
flow stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
circulation | the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area |
blood sport | sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting) |
blood count | the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample |
complete blood count CBC blood profile | counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in cubic millimeter of blood |
differential blood count | counting the number of specific types of white blood cells found in cubic millimeter of blood, may be included as part of a complete blood count |
blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging BOLD FMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation |
arterial blood gases | measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood, important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases |
provision supply supplying | the activity of supplying or providing something |
vendetta blood feud | a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other |
schistosome blood fluke | flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals |
blood clam | red-blooded clam |
barrel knot blood knot | a knot used for tying fishing leaders together, the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times |
building supply store building supply house | a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures |
laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
supply chamber | a mechanical device for holding something and supplying it as needed |
supply closet | a closet for storing supplies |
tender supply ship | ship that usually provides supplies to other ships |
water system water supply water | a facility that provides a source of water, the town debated the purification of the water supply, first you have to cut off the water |
blood | temperament or disposition, a person of hot blood |
full blood | descent from parents both of one pure breed |
body temperature blood heat | temperature of the body, normally . F or C in humans, usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health |
artery arteria arterial blood vessel | a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body |
blood | the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets, blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products, the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions |
arterial blood | blood found in arteries, except for the pulmonary artery the arterial blood is rich in oxygen |
blood group blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
Rh-positive blood type Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type Rh-negative blood Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
bloodstream blood stream | the blood flowing through the circulatory system |
blood clot grume | a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells |
cord blood | blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth |
menorrhea menstrual blood menstrual flow | flow of blood from the uterus, occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years |
venous blood | blood found in the veins, except in the pulmonary vein venous blood is rich in carbon dioxide and poor in oxygen |
whole blood | blood that has not been modified except for the addition of an anticoagulant, whole blood is normally used in blood transfusions |
serum blood serum | an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates |
plasma plasm blood plasma | the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended |
blood vessel | a vessel in which blood circulates |
vein vena venous blood vessel | a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart, all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood |
venation venous blood system | (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal |
blood cell blood corpuscle corpuscle | either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets |
leukocyte leucocyte white blood cell white cell white blood corpuscle white corpuscle WBC | blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi, an important part of the body's defense system |
red blood cell RBC erythrocyte | a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues, a biconcave disc that has no nucleus |
fetal circulation foetal circulation | the system of blood vessels and structures through which blood moves in a fetus |
ABO blood group system ABO system ABO group | a classification system for the antigens of human blood, used in blood transfusion therapy, four groups are A and B and AB and O |
blood test | a serologic analysis of a sample of blood |
PSA blood test | a blood test that measures levels of a protein called prostate specific antigen that is manufactured exclusively by the prostate gland, men with prostate problems usually have elevated levels of PSA |