(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.
(n.) Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
(n.) Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.
(n.) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.
(n.) The fleshy nature of man.
(n.) The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
(n.) A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.
(n.) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
(n.) A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.
(n.) The juice of anything, especially if red.
(v. t.) To bleed.
(v. t.) To stain, smear or wet, with blood.
(v. t.) To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
(v. t.) To heat the blood of; to exasperate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
(3) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(4) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
(5) Fecal occult blood was positive in 4 patients and fecal leukocytes were positive in one patient.
(6) Blood samples were analysed by mass spectroscopy and gas chromatography.
(7) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(8) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(9) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(10) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(11) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(12) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(13) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(14) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
(15) In addition to the changes associated with blood group A, we also found a decrease in sugar content, alterations in other antigens, and changes in the levels of several glycosyltransferases in cancerous tissues.
(16) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(17) These four antigens consisted of S of MNSs blood group, Lua of Lutheran blood group, and K and Kpa of Kell-Cellano blood group.
(18) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(19) However, after the cessation of this treatment Streptococcus viridans grew in her blood again.
(20) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
Curdle
Definition:
(v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
(v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.
(v. t.) To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.
(v. t.) To congeal or thicken.
Example Sentences:
(1) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
(2) With both kinds of meals, cortisol evolutions were similar though peak values were higher with the curdled milk.
(3) The self-preservation act of leaving is curdled by a sense of desertion for letting the status quo stand.
(4) Page four 10 More blood-curdling clauses about the secrecy of the proceedings.
(5) The biological value of the soya curdle, obtained by the traditional technology, and of the cedar curdle was much lower than that of the initial products.
(6) It was found that significant sanitary failures are present during th whole goat cheese process, although the highest bacteria contamination occurred at the milking, curdling and filling stages.
(7) – wiped out Jack Colback with a blood-curdling tackle which ended his one time team-mate’s afternoon and was rather fortunate not to collect a slightly overdue yellow card.
(8) Preruminant calves bearing indwelling catheters in the hepatic artery, the portal and the hepatic veins were fed with two kinds of diets, a conventional curdled milk diet and a milk diet which was uncurdled in the abomasum.
(9) It has been difficult for Defoe ever since and all the excitement surrounding his signing, which Toronto had trumpeted as “ a bloody big deal ”, has curdled.
(10) The FA’s culture had narrowed and curdled through that decade, which ended in 96 people being unlawfully killed at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final which the governing body itself had commissioned at Hillsborough.
(11) At the end of Black's three-hour presentation, his opposite number at MI6, Mark Allen , commented drily that it all sounded "rather blood-curdling".
(12) Then pour the boiling cream on to the mix, whisking constantly to prevent curdling.
(13) In spontaneously curdled cheese coliform bacteria vanish during the third month of storage.
(14) Self-evidently, this was not Conservatism as anyone had previously understood it – but up until the poll tax saw boldness curdling into hubris, the party and its wider constituency were in almost full support.
(15) But, over a period of months, I was given some blood curdling learned opinions on what might happen to the Guardian – and me personally – if we persisted in our intended course of publishing.
(16) But the joke curdles really badly when the film tries to bring gay characters on screen to back it up.
(17) George Osborne has, however, given an added twist to the downward spiral, both by taking money out of the economy this year and by his blood-curdling warnings that cuts of at least 25% in Whitehall spending will have to be announced in next month's comprehensive spending review in order to tackle Britain's deficit.
(18) In comparison with a conventional curdled milk diet, the intake of uncurdled milk diet did not modify mean portal vein (47 to 49 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) or hepatic arterial (5.6 to 5.7 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) blood flows but did influence nycthemeral variations in portal blood flow rates, especially during the second part of the night.
(19) Lightly beat together the egg and 5 egg yolks, then add them to the mix, a little at a time, in order to prevent curdling.
(20) Some on the left were once drawn to blood-curdling eugenics for breeding away inherited disadvantage.