(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.
Lochia
Definition:
(n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Symptomatology perceived incorrectly as abnormal: a) In pregnancy: Frequent urination: 17 per cent, morning nausea in the 1st trimester: 9 per cent, emotional instability: 21 per cent, Braxton Hicks contractions: 41 per cent, and b) Postpartum period: Decreased quantity in lochia rubra: 9 per cent, non-fetid lochia alba: 43 per cent, calostrum: 20 per cent.
(2) The symptom most frequent were fever (100), foul-smelling lochia (61.1%) and uterine tenderness (60%).
(3) Cytologic analysis of lochia in 118 puerperae helped distinguish 5 types of cytograms.
(4) b) In puerperium: Increased quantity in lochia rubra: 17 per cent, fever: 22 per cent, fetid lochia: 28 per cent, and c) In breastfeeding: Breasts red and warm: 48 per cent, fever: 30 per cent, nipple fissures: 70 per cent.
(5) Results of the serological examinations of blood, collected simultaneously with the lochia samples, correlated fairly well with those obtained microscopically.
(6) Of the lochia samples collected from 210 cows and heifers within 12-24 h after parturition or abortion, 10.9% were bacteriologically positive.
(7) Cases were significantly more likely to have foul lochia (51.1% vs. 20%; p = .005) and abdominal pain (77.1% vs. 46.7%; p = .02).
(8) The median total duration of lochia was 33 days, lochia rubra 4 days and lochia serosa 22 days.
(9) Passage of lochia in the urine, instead of through the cervix has not been described in the literature.
(10) Characteristics that identify normal lochia are reviewed, as are important nursing assessment parameters.
(11) BHV4 was isolated from the lochia from 55% of the animals on farm A and 66% of those on farm B.
(12) Each woman completed a diary sheet describing the colour and duration of her lochia for up to 60 days post partum.
(13) The clinical picture was preceded by skin rash which became a pyoderma, and ended up as desquamation; there were several alterations: hepatic, renal, hematological (disseminated intravascular coagulation) and digestive (gastroenteritis); and Staphylococcus aureus (coagulase positive) was isolated from the skin, lochia, coproculture; and they were negative to this microorganism the ones from blood, urine and pharynx.
(14) The strains from the lochiae and placenta as well as those from the organs of sheep were detected already as primocultures on commonly used blood agar, the other strains after varying periods of cold enrichment and subsequent inoculation on a solid selective medium with nalidixic acid and acriflavin.
(15) The phases of lochia were divided according to the classical description; lochia rubra, serosa and alba.
(16) From October 1977 to May 15, 1989 in Slovakia 39 strongly haemolytic strains of L. ivanovii were isolated from a woman after delivery of a stillborn foetus--from the lochiae, placenta and rectal smear, from five symptom-free subjects from the faeces, from the rectal smears of two sheep, from the intestinal contents in the portion of the terminal ileus from 28 free living small terrestrial mammals, one strain from meat--beef steak, from the lungs, liver and kidneys of a dead young sheep and one strain from silage.
(17) 213 lochia samples and 196 urine samples from pregnant women have been examined.
(18) The duration of lochia was shorter in parous women and women with smaller babies.
(19) A history of foul lochia (p less than 0.01) and abdominal pain (p = 0.02) were associated with postpartum endometritis.
(20) The effect of the sulfonamide in the drug "Solupront" is impaired after application in the uterus in order of the quick absorption, of distribution and excretion and also in order of dilution by lochia and by interaction with p-aminobenzoic acid.