What's the difference between blood and sap?

Blood


Definition:

  • (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.

Sap


Definition:

  • (n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • (n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • (n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
  • (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with saps.
  • (v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • (v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
  • (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By contrast, SAP-35, the major surfactant-associated glycoprotein of molecular weight = 35,000, and other higher molecular weight proteins were not detected in significant quantities in the CLSE or surfactant-TA replacement surfactants, either by highly sensitive silver stain analysis or by immunoblot using monospecific antisera generated against bovine SAP-35.
  • (2) In normovolemia, the hepatic arterial flow (HAF) increased as the systemic arterial pressure (SAP) rose up to 140 mmHg, and then decreased as SAP rose further.
  • (3) Rat type II pneumocytes expressed vitamin K-dependent carboxylase activity that incorporated 14CO2 into microsomal protein precursors of molecular weights similar to those of surfactant-associated proteins (SAP).
  • (4) At this SAP a constant amount of SNP and 500 ml Dextran 60 were infused.
  • (5) The in vitro transcript probes could detect 1 ng of purified virus and as little as 1 microliter of sap extracts prepared from infected oat shoots.
  • (6) Combined propranolol-atropine blockade increased heart rate at rest in the SAP state, and significantly attenuated the tachycardia accompanying treadmill exercise.
  • (7) It is concluded that the cell sap from rat liver contains the complete set of enzymes for the synthesis from delta-aminolaevulinate of haem c and its linkage to a small pool of free apoprotein c present in soluble form.
  • (8) As shown earlier, at zero turgor pressure the intracellular freezing point of the parenchyma cells matches closely the negative pressure in the xylem sap.
  • (9) Whole blood components did not interfere with the efficacy of OKT1-SAP, as in vitro treatment of fresh whole blood resulted in effective elimination of clonable peripheral blood T-lymphocytes assessed by a limiting dilution assay.
  • (10) According to the theory of osmoelastic coupling, also large additives, such as the proteins of the cell sap, are able to cause an osmotic stress equivalent to that caused by polyethylene glycol.
  • (11) SAP did not bind to the macrophage cell line RAW264.7 nor did it enhance IL-1 secretion by this line.
  • (12) The cell sap in the absence of ribosomes was also able to incorporate radioactivity into purified cytochrome c, and the addition of ribosomes significantly enhanced the activity.
  • (13) The C4BP.SAP complex was also detected in normal serum and the results suggested that there was virtually no free SAP or uncomplexed C4BP in normal serum.
  • (14) An additional category, SAP "flare", was also identified (SAP increment greater than 15% at 1 month, with subsequent fall at 2 months).
  • (15) The biophysical activity of synthetic phospholipid-apoprotein combinants was assessed by measurements of adsorption facility and dynamic surface tension lowering ability at 37 degrees C. The SM-SAP-6 combinants had adsorption facility equivalent to natural lung surfactant, and to the surfactant extract preparations CLSE and surfactant-TA used in exogenous surfactant replacement therapy for the neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS).
  • (16) Histone phosphorylation is sharply inhibited after addition of DNA, the protein kinases of nuclear sap phosphorylating less effectively the histones complexed with DNA than the non-histone proteins.
  • (17) Specific SAP-35 RNA increased during organ culture and both SAP-35 content and SAP-35 RNA increased in the absence of exogenous hormones in 2% carbon-stripped fetal calf serum.
  • (18) The beta2-microglobulin in the cell-sap fraction was present in the unbound state.
  • (19) No patients at risk for developing heterotopic bone after THA could be identified from the preoperative level of SAP.
  • (20) The mass of SAP in these was determined from the extinction coefficient of SAP at 280 nm measured here precisely for the first time by spectrophotometry and cryogenic drying.

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