Definition of blood

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Blood (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..

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Flush :: Flush (v. t.) To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement..
Pyrope :: Pyrope (n.) A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under Garnet..
Fibrinogen :: Fibrinogen (n.) An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation..
Homoiothermal :: Homoiothermal (a.) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium..
Bloodily :: Bloodily (adv.) In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.
Effusion :: Effusion (n.) The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like..
Bloodshedding :: Bloodshedding (n.) Bloodshed.
Half-bred :: Half-bred (a.) Half-blooded.
Ungored :: Ungored (a.) Not stained with gore; not bloodied.
Angioma :: Angioma (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.
Haematoblast :: Haematoblast (n.) One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate..
Exanguious :: Exanguious (a.) Bloodless. [Obs.] See Exsanguious.
Hemacite :: Hemacite (n.) A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc..
Sanguifier :: Sanguifier (n.) A producer of blood.
Metabolism :: Metabolism (n.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism)..
Omentum :: Omentum (n.) A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon..
Vasoformative :: Vasoformative (a.) Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells..
Leucocyte :: Leucocyte (n.) A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc..
Aorta :: Aorta (n.) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
Spit :: Spissitude (n.) The quality or state of being spissated; as, the spissitude of coagulated blood, or of any coagulum..
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