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. |
Discharge
(v. t.) To relieve of a charge, load, or burden |
Discharge
(v. t.) To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded |
Discharge
(v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc. |
Discharge
(v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment |
Discharge
(v. t.) To release legally from confinement |
Discharge
(v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden |
Discharge
(v. t.) To let fly, as a missile |
Discharge
(v. t.) To set aside |
Discharge
(v. t.) To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt |
Discharge
(v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment |
Discharge
(v. t.) To give forth |
Discharge
(v. t.) To prohibit |
Discharge
(v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden |
Discharge
(v. t.) The act of discharging |
Discharge
(v. t.) Firing off |
Discharge
(v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc. |
Discharge
(v. t.) Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc. |
Discharge
(v. t.) Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc. |
Discharge
(v. t.) Legal release from confinement |
Discharge
(v. t.) The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like |
Discharge
(v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document. |
Discharge
(v. t.) A flowing or issuing out |
Dragon's blood
() Alt. of Dragon's tail |
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 |
Issue
(n.) The act of passing or flowing out |
Issue
(n.) The act of sending out, or causing to go forth |
Issue
(n.) That which passes, flows, or is sent out |
Issue
(n.) Progeny |
Issue
(n.) Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property |
discharge
firing firing off | the act of discharging a gun |
| blood typing | determining a person's blood type by serological methods |
release waiver
discharge | a formal written statement of relinquishment |
dismissal
dismission
discharge firing liberation release sack
sacking | the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) |
| honorable discharge | a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record |
| dishonorable discharge | a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder) |
transfusion
blood transfusion | the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery |
| 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 |
issue issuing
issuance | the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity), a new issue of stamps, the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago |
| stock issue | (corporation law) the authorization and delivery of shares of stock for sale to the public or the shares thus offered at a particular time |
issue
publication | the act of issuing printed materials |
vendetta
blood feud | a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other |
| discharge venting | the act of venting |
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 |
| discharge lamp | a lamp that generates light by a discharge between two electrodes in a gas |
| discharge pipe | a pipe through which fluids can be discharged |
electric-discharge lamp
gas-discharge lamp | an electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube |
exit
issue
outlet
way out | an opening that permits escape or release, he blocked the way out, the canyon had only one issue |
| gas-discharge tube | a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas |
| 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 |
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 |