Look up: BLOOD

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   blood
   Fluid which circulates throughout the body of an animal, distributing nutrients, and often oxygen as well.
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   Blood
   Blood is a body fluid that carries food and oxygen to cells.
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   blood
   [n] - people viewed as members of a group 2. [n] - the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart 3. [n] - temperament or disposition 4. [v] - smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
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   Blood
   contains red cells, white cells, plasma, and platelets and other agents that are active in the clotting of blood. Plasma is the clear or yellowish fluid in which corpuscles and cells are suspended; including water, dissolved proteins, salts, sugars, fats, minerals, and vitamins. Red cells have haemoglobin for carrying oxygen. Antibodies for various diseases are proteins in the blood that render the toxins harmless.
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   Blood
   Noun: Blood is essential for life. Blood carries oxygen, nutrients, hormones and chemicals to each of the sixty billion cells throughout the body. It plays an essential part in protecting the body from infection. Blood also helps the body remove waste and toxins. There are close to 30 trillion blood cells in an adult. Each cubic millimetre of blood...
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   Blood
   A liquid that circulates inside the bodies of animals. Blood carries oxygen and food substances to cells in the body. It removes carbon dioxide and other waste materials from the cells. See also: Oxygen, Unit of Blood, Vein.
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   Blood
   Liquid in the circulatory system
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   Blood
   Blood supplies oxygen to the body and removes carbon dioxide. It is pumped around the body by the heart.
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   Blood
   Blood: The familiar red fluid in the body that contains white and red blood cells, platelets, proteins, and other elements. The blood is transported throughout the body by the circulatory system. Blood functions in two directions: arterial and venous. Arterial blood is the means by which oxygen and nutrients are transported to tissues while venous ...
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    blood
    a place where blood is preserved for medical usage; a laboratory or place where whole blood or plasma is stored under strictly controlled conditions, to be used for transfusion Category: Medicine • Pump to maintain circulation is used as ' artificial heart' .2.Pump which is used in slaughter-houses for the pumping of blood for further use Category: Physics • rain coloured r...
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    Blood
    Blood (blŭd) noun [ Middle English blod , blood , Anglo-Saxon blōd ; akin to Dutch bloed , Old High German bluot , German blut , Goth. blōþ , Icelandic blōš , Swedish & Danish blod ; probably from the same root as English blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.] 1. The fluid which c ...
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    Blood
    Blood transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Blooded ; present participle & verbal noun Blooding .] 1. To bleed. [ Obsolete] Cowper. 2. To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [ Archaic] « Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden. » 3. To give (hounds ...
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    blood
    <haematology> Considered a circulating tissue composed of a fluid portion (plasma) with suspended formed elements (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). ... Arterial blood is the means by which oxygen and nutrients are transported to tissues, venous blood is the means by which carbon dioxide and metabolic by-products are transported ...
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    blood
    noun temperament or disposition; `a person of hot blood`
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    blood
    noun the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart; `blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries waste products away`; `the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions`
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    blood
    verb smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
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    Blood
    `Blood` is a specialized bodily fluid (technically a tissue) that is composed of a liquid called blood plasma and blood cells suspended within the plasma. The blood cells present in blood are red blood cells (also called RBCs or erythrocytes), white blood cells (including both leukocytes and lymphocytes) and platelets (also called thrombocytes). Plasma is predominantly water containing dissolved proteins, salts and many other substances; and make...
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    blood
    (blud) the fluid that circulates through the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins and is the chief means of transport within the body. It transports oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues and carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs. It also transports nutritive substances and metabolites to the tissues and removes ...
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    Blood
    • (n.) The fleshy nature of man. • (v. t.) To heat the blood of; to exasperate. • (v. t.) To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. • (n.) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. • (n.) The shedding of blood; the taking of li...
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    blood
    fluid that transports oxygen and nutrients to the cells and carries away carbon dioxide and other waste products. Technically, blood is a transport ... [43 related articles]
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    blood
    a literary term of British origin referring to a lurid work of fiction, especially a cheap and ill-written book of adventure or crime. The word is a ...
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    blood
    blood 1. The fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated by the heart through a vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues. 2. A functionally similar fluid in animals other than vertebrates; such as, the juice or sap of certain plants. 3. A vital or animating...
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    blood
    Constituents of blood. L is a lymphocyte or white blood cell. E is an erythrocyte or red blood cell. P is a blood platelet. Credit: NASA Red and white blood cells. The white blood cells are the larger ones with irregular nuclei. The small particles are platelets. Credit: US National Instit...
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    blood
    blood, fluid pumped by the heart that circulates throughout the body via the arteries, veins, and capillaries (see circulatory system; heart). An adult male of average size normally has about 6 quarts (5.6 liters) of blood. The blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body tissues and removes carbo...
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