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. |
Breed
(v. t.) To produce as offspring |
Breed
(v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth |
Breed
(v. t.) To educate |
Breed
(v. t.) To engender |
Breed
(v. t.) To give birth to |
Breed
(v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock. |
Breed
(v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process. |
Breed
(v. i.) To bear and nourish young |
Breed
(v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam |
Breed
(v. i.) To have birth |
Breed
(v. i.) To raise a breed |
Breed
(n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. |
Breed
(n.) Class |
Breed
(n.) A number produced at once |
Dragon's blood
() Alt. of Dragon's tail |
Half
(a.) Consisting of a moiety, or half |
Half
(a.) Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half |
Half
(adv.) In an equal part or degree |
Half
(a.) Part |
Half
(a.) One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided |
Half
(v. t.) To halve. [Obs.] See Halve. |
Half-and-half
(n.) A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts. |
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 |
Half-blooded
(a.) Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races |
Half-blooded
(a.) Degenerate |
Half-boot
(n.) A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress. |
Half-bound
(n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book. |
Half-bred
(a.) Half-blooded. |
Half-bred
(a.) Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding |
| blood typing | determining a person's blood type by serological methods |
transfusion
blood transfusion | the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery |
| half gainer | a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board |
| blood sport | sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting) |
| half volley | a tennis return made by hitting the ball immediately after it bounces |
| 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 |
| half nelson | a wrestling hold in which the holder puts an arm under the opponent's arm and exerts pressure on the back of the neck |
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 |
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 |
jacksnipe half snipe
Limnocryptes minima | a small short-billed Old World snipe |
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 |
buskin
combat boot
desert boot
half boot
top boot | a boot reaching halfway up to the knee |
domino half mask
eye mask | a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes |
Dutch door
half door | an exterior door divided in two horizontally, either half can be closed or open independently |
| half binding | book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another |
| half cross stitch | a single cross stitch at a diagonal |
| half hatchet | a hatchet with a broad blade on one end and a hammer head of the other |
| half hitch | a knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object, usually tied double |
| half-length | a portrait showing the body from only the waist up |
| half sole | shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe |
| half track | a track that goes around only rear wheels |
| half track | a motor vehicle propelled by half tracks, frequently used by the military |
petticoat
half-slip
underskirt | undergarment worn under a skirt |
| 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 |
| half-intensity | half the maximum intensity |
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 |