(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.
Dyscrasia
Definition:
(n.) An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.
Example Sentences:
(1) A varying percentage from 40 to 60% of patients having lymphoplasmacytic dyscrasias with a monoclonal component shows a clinical or subclinical polyneuropathy.
(2) Extracardiac adverse effects of quinidine include potentially intolerable gastrointestinal effects and hypersensitivity reactions such as fever, rash, blood dyscrasias and hepatitis.
(3) The granulocytopenia was the most common type of blood dyscrasia, comprising 51.0% of all cases.
(4) The rate of O-CAP use in the dyscrasia-group was approximately equal to that in the population as a whole.
(5) Electrophysiological findings in 10 patients with polyneuropathy and nonmalignant IgMk plasma cell dyscrasia are reported.
(6) Drug induced blood dyscrasias, leukocytopenia, thrombocytopenia and hemolytic anemia were observed in 7% of 643 adverse drug reactions registered by drug monitoring in Bern, Switzerland, in the period 1970-1973.
(7) The ultrastructural characteristics of these storage cells were found to be identical to those of pseudo-Gaucher cells found in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia and distinctly different from those previously reported in other non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or plasma cell dyscrasias.
(8) The deposition of amyloid fibrils has been associated with a diversity of pathologies including plasma cell dyscrasias, chronic inflammatory diseases, and several types of neurological diseases including Alzheimer's disease.
(9) Common symptoms of various blood dyscrasias are discussed.
(10) The reactions were associated with bacterial infections, neoplasms, hepatorenal failure, acute metabolic disorders and non-malignant blood dyscrasias.
(11) Multiple myeloma is a distinctive form of plasma cell dyscrasia which often manifests itself in Otolaryngology.
(12) The relation of laboratory evidence of connective tissue dyscrasia in the mother to the congenital A-V block in the child is discussed.
(13) P component levels in selected groups of patients demonstrated a 1.5 fold elevation of the mean level in 15 patients with high erythrocyte sedimentation rates, no difference in the mean level of 23 patients on warfarin or 16 patients with plasma cell dyscrasia or chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and a depression of the mean level to one fourth of normal in 14 patients with alcoholic liver disease.
(14) Rashes were most frequent, followed by fever, lymphadenopathy, eosinophilia, abnormal liver function tests, blood dyscrasias, serum sickness, renal failure, and polymyositis.
(15) Streptokinase should not be used after major surgery, in patients with blood dyscrasias, or when there are neurologic deficits secondary to the arterial ischemia.
(16) Primary systemic amyloidosis (AL), a disease involving the deposition of immunoglobulin light chains in tissue, is caused by a plasma cell dyscrasia.
(17) It is suggested from this study that drug-induced blood dyscrasia is not uncommon in Okinawa.
(18) We studied a patient with POEMS syndrome (plasma cell dyscrasia with polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal [M]-protein, skin changes) who was also found to have renal enlargement and microangiopathic glomerulopathy.
(19) A rare form of plasma cell dyscrasia characterized by associated polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M protein and skin changes has been termed the POEMS syndrome.
(20) None of the patients developed any blood dyscrasia, liver damage, diarrhea, or colitis.