Blood

  • 71blood — n Friendship. I don t do anything without him; we re blood. 1980s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 72blood is up — excited, angry, ready to fight    Kerry is friendly, but when his blood is up, he s dangerous …

    English idioms

  • 73blood —    menstruation    Or the first onset:     My blood, for instance, it came late, as if worried it might upset things. (R. Thompson, 1996, of a tomboy)    Bloody may mean menstruating, either tout court and in various phrases such as the bloody… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 74blood — n. 1. Vital fluid, vital current, life blood, life current. 2. Posterity, descendants, offspring, children, progeny. 3. Kin, kindred, relations, family, house, line. 4. Lineage, descent, kinship, kindred, consanguinity, relationship, common… …

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  • 75blood — noun 1) Syn: lifeblood, gore, vital fluid 2) a woman of noble blood Syn: ancestry, lineage, descent, parentage, family, birth, extraction, origin, stock …

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  • 76blood — [OE] Blood is a Germanic word, occurring as German blut, Dutch bloed, Swedish blod, etc. as well as in English (the Romance languages take their words from Latin sanguis, whence English sanguine [14], while Greek had haima, as in English… …

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  • 77Blood type — (or blood group) is determined, in part, by the ABO blood group antigens present on red blood cells. A blood type (also called a blood group) is a classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the… …

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  • 78Blood transfusion — Intervention Plastic bag containing packed red blood cells in citrate, phosphate, dextrose, and adenine (CPDA) solution …

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  • 79Blood substitutes — Blood substitutes, often called artificial blood, are used to fill fluid volume and/or carry oxygen and other blood gases in the cardiovascular system. Although commonly used, the term is not accurate since human blood performs many important… …

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  • 80Blood flow — is the continuous running of blood in the cardiovascular system. The human body is made up of several processes all carrying out various functions. We have the gastrointestinal system which aids the digestion and the absorption of food. We also… …

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