[
UK
/blˈʌd/
]
[ US /ˈbɫəd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫəd/ ]
NOUN
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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 -
temperament or disposition
a person of hot blood -
the descendants of one individual
his entire lineage has been warriors - a dissolute man in fashionable society
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people viewed as members of a group
we need more young blood in this organization
VERB
- smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
How To Use blood In A Sentence
- He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
- Twenty microliters of each antibody was added to 100 L of blood, and the mixture was incubated at room temperature for 15 minutes.
- So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
- There has been a bit of a hoo-ha in recent years about how your blood type influences the type of person you are.
- The virus can actually destroy those white blood cells, leaving the body wide open to attack from other infections.
- She was treated with intravenous folinic acid and antibiotics and was given transfusions of blood products.
- This is a metabolic disorder whereby excess uric acid in the blood gets deposited in joints.
- Concerns about the clinical implications, the cost of routine medication, and the possible excessive wastage resulting from the return of units to the blood bank have led us to question our practice.
- And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank! The Name of the Rose
- Metformin and sulfonylurea drugs -- the latter a class of diabetes drugs including glyburide, glipizide, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide and tolazamide -- are often among the first medications prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes. Drug linked to increased risk for older diabetics
