(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.
Oxyhaemoglobin
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Oxyhemoglobin
Example Sentences:
(1) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(2) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
(3) Hypoxaemia was graded into four values of oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SpO2).
(4) In conclusion, a dry sucrose network was recognized as a significant support to the native ferrous structure of oxyhaemoglobin, while the presence of water molecules, of assumed peroxidic radicals and the action of thermal vibrations favour the oxidation and denaturation of haemoglobin.
(5) Oxyhaemoglobin used for the assay of NO, inhibited the relaxation by SIN-1, but did not reduce vessel relaxations induced by GTN or iloprost, a stable prostacyclin analogue.
(6) These values are close to those for the FeO2- centre formed in the beta-chains of normal oxyhaemoglobin.
(7) The data show that nocturnal sleep has some adverse influence on oxygen balance in these patients as suggested by the occurrence of arterial oxyhaemoglobin desaturation occurring mainly during REM stages.
(8) These results indicate that O2 rather than oxyhaemoglobin is likely to initiate divicine oxidation in the erythrocyte.
(9) The inhibition was potentiated by superoxide dismutase (SOD) and reversed by oxyhaemoglobin (oxyHb).
(10) The alpha 1 alpha 2 interface involves similar salt bridges in both forms, but in oxyhaemoglobin buries 240 A2 more surface than in deoxyhaemoglobin.
(11) The inhibition of platelet aggregation obtained with non-treated or LPS-treated SMC was potentiated by superoxide dismutase (SOD, 60 u ml-1) and ablated by oxyhaemoglobin (OxyHb, 10 microM).
(12) The change of purple oxyhaemoglobin to the darker reduced haemoglobin and methaemoglobin was used as an initial visual growth indicator in continuously agitated, aerobic Colorbact bottles after inoculation with a broad assortment of aerobic and facultatively anaerobic bacteria previously isolated from blood cultures.
(13) We have accepted that oxyhaemoglobin (Oxy-Hb) is an important spasmogenic substance.
(14) Ventilatory rate and volume and arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation were recorded continuously for the first 24 h following surgery.
(15) Human normal, adult and foetal oxyhaemoglobins and oxyhaemoglobins from leukaemic patients were studied, by Mössbauer spectroscopy.
(16) Assessment of the intensive care patient must take into account the effect of alterations of the oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve which can either increase or diminish tissue oxygenation.
(17) There is a loosely packed beta 1 beta 2 interface burying 320 A2 of surface in oxyhaemoglobin; there is no beta 1 beta 2 interface in deoxyhaemoglobin.
(18) Incubation of tissues with oxyhaemoglobin or the induction of tolerance to GTN abolished responses occurring in Phase I but were without effect on Phase II relaxant responses.
(19) These phenomena were compared with the dichroism of oxyhaemoglobin.
(20) Methods using a single, alkaline cresolphthalein complexone reagent are most seriously affected by haemolysis due to persistence of oxyhaemoglobin.