Blood vs. Plasma

Bloodnoun

A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

Bloodnoun

A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).

Bloodnoun

(historical) One of the four humours in the human body.

Bloodnoun

A blood test or blood sample.

Bloodnoun

The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.

Bloodnoun

(poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.

Bloodnoun

(obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; mood

Bloodnoun

(obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.

Bloodnoun

A blood horse, one of good pedigree.

Bloodnoun

(figurative) Bloodshed.

Bloodnoun

member of a certain gang.

Bloodverb

(transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

Bloodverb

To let blood (from); to bleed.

Bloodverb

(transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

Bloodnoun

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.

Bloodnoun

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

Bloodnoun

Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.

Bloodnoun

Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

Bloodnoun

The fleshy nature of man.

Bloodnoun

The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.

Bloodnoun

A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.

Bloodnoun

Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; - as if the blood were the seat of emotions.

Bloodnoun

A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.

Bloodnoun

The juice of anything, especially if red.

Bloodverb

To bleed.

Bloodverb

To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

Bloodverb

To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.

Bloodverb

To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

Bloodnoun

the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart;

Bloodnoun

the descendants of one individual;

Bloodnoun

the shedding of blood resulting in murder;

Bloodnoun

temperament or disposition;

Bloodnoun

a dissolute man in fashionable society

Bloodnoun

people viewed as members of a group;

Bloodverb

smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

Blood

Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.In vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and blood cells themselves.

Plasmanoun

(physics) A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas

Plasmanoun

(hematology) A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin

Plasmanoun

(hematology) Blood plasma, free of suspended cells, used in transfusions

Plasmanoun

(mineralogy) A variety of green quartz, used in ancient times for making engraved ornaments.

Plasmanoun

A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.

Plasmanoun

A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.

Plasmanoun

A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.

Plasmanoun

The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.

Plasmanoun

Unorganized material; elementary matter.

Plasmanoun

A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.

Plasmanoun

same as blood plasma.

Plasmanoun

a state of matter in which charged particles such as electrons and atomi nuclei have sufficiently high energy to move freely, rather than be bound in atoms as in ordinary matter; it has some of the properties of a gas, but is a conductor of electricity.

Plasmanoun

colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended

Plasmanoun

a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone

Plasmanoun

(physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons;