English word senses marked with topical category "Blood"
Parent categories: Bodily fluids, Body parts, Liquids, Body, Anatomy, Matter, Human, Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Nature, Sciences
Total 71 word senses
- bleed (Verb) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
- bleed out (Noun) An instance of exsanguination or of major blood loss.
- bleed out (Noun) An instance of any system or item that loses its necessary components, such as a machine and its fuel or a company and its money.
- bleed out (Verb) To die due to excess bloodloss; to bleed to death.
- blood (Noun) Bloodshed.
- blood bank (Noun) a place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored for use in transfusions
- blood donation (Noun) The act of donating one's blood for use in transfusion.
- blood donor (Noun) A person who donates blood for use in transfusion.
- blood loss (Noun) the loss of blood caused by heavy bleeding
- blood plasma (Noun) The clear fluid portion of blood in which the red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets are suspended; forms serum upon clotting.
- blood transfusion (Noun) The taking of blood from one individual and inserting it or blood-based products into the circulatory system of another.
- blood vessel (Noun) A component of the circulatory system, such as an artery, capillary, or vein, that carries blood.
- blood volume (Noun) The volume of blood circulating in an individual.
- bloodlet (Verb) To bleed; let blood; phlebotomise.
- bloodletter (Noun) One who performs bloodletting (the removal of blood in the hope of curing illness).
- bloodletting (Noun) A circumstance, such as a battle, where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled through violence.
- bloodloss (Noun) alternative form of blood loss.
- bloodmobile (Noun) A vehicle outfitted to collect blood from donors.
- bloodshed (Noun) A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.
- bloodshot (Adjective) Reddened and inflamed because of congested blood vessels.
- bloody (Adjective) Covered in blood.
- bloody (Adjective) Characterised by bloodshed.
- bloody (Noun) bloody mary
- bloody nose (Noun) A nose that is bleeding internally.
- cycler (Noun) A, usually man-made, object that follows such an orbit.
- cycler (Noun) A person with bipolar disorder, often used when comparing the speed of mood swings.
- cycler (Noun) A device for performing dialysis; for mechanically purifying blood.
- cycler (Noun) Ellipsis of thermal cycler.; a machine for creating multiple copies of DNA sequences.
- ecchymosis (Noun) A skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin, especially one that is remote from a site of trauma or caused by a nontraumatic process (such as neoplasia).
- euchloremic (Adjective) Having a normal level of chloride in the blood
- exsanguinate (Verb) To drain (a living or dead body, or (medicine, surgery) a body part) of blood.
- exsanguinate (Verb) To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss.
- exsanguinate (Verb) To bleed profusely; also, to die by means of blood loss.
- exsanguinate (Verb) To cause blood to drain from a body or body part, or profuse bleeding.
- exsanguination (Noun) Bloodletting.
- exsanguination (Noun) Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat.
- give blood (Verb) To willingly have one's own blood drawn, for a blood bank or the like.
- haemato- (Prefix) blood
- haemo- (Prefix) Pertaining to blood.
- hematoma (Noun) A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels.
- hemotransfusion (Noun) blood transfusion
- hyperchloremia (Noun) An electrolyte disturbance in which there is an abnormally elevated level of the chloride ion in the blood.
- hyperchloremic (Adjective) Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperchloremia.
- hypercupremia (Noun) An abnormally high level of copper in the blood (above the reference range), which if it is high enough and/or persistent enough can produce copper toxicity (in any of various diseases, including Wilson's disease).
- hyperfusion (Noun) Increased perfusion of blood through an organ
- hypocupremia (Noun) An abnormally low level of copper in the blood (below the reference range).
- hypovolemia (Noun) A state of decreased blood plasma volume.
- normocupremia (Noun) The state of having a normal concentration of copper in one's blood (within the the reference range).
- nosebleed (Noun) A haemorrhage from the nose; usually, blood flow exiting the nostrils that originates from the nasal cavity.
- nosebleed (Noun) A nerd or geek; a dork.
- nosebleed (Noun) mental overload (usually attained as a result of having to comprehend new and/or complex concepts or languages that one is not particularly skilled with).
- nosebleed (Noun) Short for nosebleed seat.
- protidemia (Noun) The presence of excess protein in the blood
- red blood cell (Noun) A type of cell in the blood of vertebrates that contains hemoglobin and transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues; an erythrocyte.
- sangui- (Prefix) Relating to blood.
- sanguiferous (Adjective) Conveying blood.
- sanguification (Noun) The formation of blood cells.
- sanguinary (Adjective) Involving bloodshed.
- sanguine (Adjective) Full of blood; bloody.
- sanguine (Noun) Bloodstone.
- sanguine (Noun) Red crayon.
- sanguine (Verb) To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.
- stasis (Noun) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
- stasis (Noun) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
- stasis (Noun) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
- stasis (Noun) One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
- transfusion (Noun) The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another.
- vampire bat (Noun) Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.
- volaemia (Noun) blood volume
- white blood cell (Noun) A type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response, or part of the immune system.
- -aemia (Suffix) Blood; presence in blood (of a substance denoted by an affixed combining form); state or condition of the blood.
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