blood1 nounblood2 verb
bloodblood1 /blʌd/ ●●● S2 W1 noun [uncountable] 
WORD ORIGINblood
Origin:
Old English blodEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- She lost a lot of blood in the accident.
- There's French blood on his mother's side.
- Businesses that clean up blood and guts at accident scenes must register with the state.
- During the procedure pulse rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation were recorded every minute by the research nurse.
- I remember it as if I were still standing there, streaked with blood and dust and tears, talking to her.
- In Raynaud's disease, the blood supply to the fingers is faulty, leading to attacks of numbness and discomfort.
- Now there are ways of making sure that infected blood isn't used in transfusions.
- The plant it was made from sprang up first when Prometheus' blood dripped down upon the earth.
- The temporary rise in blood pressure increases the oxygen requirements and creates an extra burden on the heart.
- Urine analysis, a red blood cell count, and blood pressure were also routinely recorded.
Longman Language Activatorcruel behaviour/punishments/treatment
intended to upset someone or make them suffer: · Lyle was always playing cruel jokes on his little sister.· The electric chair is possibly the cruellest method of execution.it is cruel to do something: · I think it's cruel to keep dogs locked up inside all day.
extremely cruel, in a way that shocks people: · We consider the death penalty to be barbaric.· the barbaric treatment of civilians in the concentration camps
very cruel and not showing any of the pity or concern that normal people feel when they see other people suffering: · The prison conditions in this country are inhuman.· The government has been accused of using artificial and inhuman criteria to decide which refugees should be deported.
: inhumane treatment/conditions/methods etc actions or conditions that are not considered acceptable because they cause too much suffering: · Amnesty International is protesting against the inhumane treatment of these political prisoners.· This method of slaughtering chickens is now regarded by many as inhumane.
: cold-blooded murder/killing/attack a murder etc done without showing any feeling or pity for the person who is attacked: · The entire nation has been shocked by the cold-blooded murder of the two girls.
if you kill someone in cold blood , you kill them in a cruel and deliberate way without showing any emotion: · The killers hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood.
to make someone feel frightened · Does the thought of death frighten you?· Take that silly mask off -- you're frightening the children.it frightens somebody to know/think etc · It frightens me to know that the rapist still hasn't been caught.frighten the life out of somebody (=make someone feel very frightened) · What are you doing creeping up on me like that? You frightened the life out of me!frighten somebody out of their wits (=make someone feel very frightened) · Film-makers have always known that one way to capture an audience is to frighten it out of its wits. frighten the (living) daylights out of somebody (=make someone feel very frightened) · Melissa spun round to see Eddie standing behind her. "You frightened the daylights out of me!" she gasped. "I never heard you come in."frighten somebody into doing something (=make someone do something by frightening them) · Their lawyers tried to frighten us into signing the contract.frighten somebody off/frighten off somebody (=frighten someone so that they go away or stop trying to do something) · The man pulled out a gun and managed to frighten off his attackers.
especially spoken to make someone feel frightened, especially by making them think something very unpleasant might happen: · He was driving fast just to scare us.· We're not really going to get arrested - I think the police are trying to scare us.it scares somebody to know/think etc: · It scared him to think that his mother might never recover.scare the hell out of somebody (=make someone feel very frightened) informal: · She scared the hell out of me when she said she had to go into hospital.scare the (living) daylights out of somebody (=make someone feel very frightened): · Don't creep up on me like that! You scared the living daylights out of me!
to make someone feel very frightened: · The idea of going down into the caves terrified her.· The teacher terrified her so much, that she hated going to school.· My uncle suffers from agoraphobia, and the idea of leaving the house terrifies him.it terrifies somebody to think/know etc: · It terrified him to think that, in six months' time, he would have to stand up in front of a class and teach them something.
to make someone suddenly feel frightened so that they make a sudden movement or their heart starts beating quickly: · He really gave me a fright when he phoned at that time of night.give somebody a hell of a fright (=make someone suddenly very frightened) informal: · I accidentally touched a live wire in the motor, and even though it didn't hurt me it gave me a hell of a fright.
to make people feel very worried about a possible danger: · We don't wish to alarm people unnecessarily, but it would be wise to avoid drinking the tap water here.· Many women are alarmed by suggestions of a link between the contraceptive pill and breast cancer.
if someone or something startles you, they frighten you because you see them suddenly or hear them when you did not know they were there: · I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you.· The noise startled him, and he dropped his glass on the floor.· Any unexpected movements can startle the animal, so it must be approached slowly and steadily.
to suddenly surprise and frighten someone so that they make a sudden movement: · Sorry! I didn't mean to make you jump.· Something darted out from behind the hedge, and made me jump.
if a person or a place gives you the creeps , they make you feel slightly frightened and nervous because they are strange: · This house gives me the creeps - it's so dark and quiet.· I hate being left alone in the office with Graham - he gives me the creeps.
informal if something such as a story or account makes your hair stand on end it makes you very frightened: · Wait until I tell you about the murder -- it'll make your hair stand on end.· I've heard rumours about how Captain Crayshaw disciplines his crew... things to make your hair stand on end.
if a thought or experience sends shivers down your spine , it makes you feel very frightened especially because it involves someone or something that is very evil: · When you think of what happened in that house, it sends shivers down your spine.· Mere mention of his name is enough to send shivers down the spine of even the most battle-hardened fighter.
if a thought or experience makes your blood run cold , it shocks and frightens you because it is extremely cruel, violent, or dangerous: · The thought of ever returning to the prison makes his blood run cold. · The man stepped forward, and when Amelie saw him give a Nazi salute, it made her blood run cold.
to give money, food etc in order to help people to give money to an organization that will use it to help people who are poor, sick, in trouble etc: · The British give animal welfare organizations over £200 million per year.· Please give generously, these children need your help.· We would be grateful for any donation that you are prepared to give.give something to somebody: · Local people have given over $100,000 to our Help a Child appeal.give to: · About a quarter of Britons regularly give to charity.
to give money, or something useful or valuable, in order to help people - use this especially about things that are given by companies or organizations: · The books were donated by a local publishing company.donate something to something: · The concert organizers say they will donate all profits to charity.
to give an amount of money to an organization that will use it to help people: · We're collecting money to build a hostel for homeless people - would you like to make a donation?make a donation to: · The company made several large donations to charities.
if something such as a sum of money goes to someone, especially to a group of people who are poor, hungry, sick etc, it is given to them: · All the money raised will go to local charities.
an organization that collects money or goods from people who give them, and uses them to help people who need help: · Elton John has campaigned for a number of AIDS charities.give/donate something to charity: · The corporation has donated nearly $70 million to children's charities over the past 17 years.· Clear out all the clothes you never wear, and give them to charity.go to charity: · All profits from the show will go to charity.do something for charity: · They aim to walk 30 miles for charity.a charity ball/lunch/concert etc (=an event organized to make money for charity): · Porter spent his retirement years organizing charity golf tournaments throughout the United States.
a person, organization, or country that gives something, especially money, to another organization or country so that they can use it to help other people: · Money for the new health centre has come mostly from private donors.· Some donor countries have criticized the way in which their aid is being distributed.
someone who gives blood or a part of their body so that it can be used in the medical treatment of someone else: · The patient needs a liver transplant, and the search has begun for a suitable donor.· Unless more blood donors come forward, it may be necessary to cancel some operations.
someone who gives something, especially a large amount of money, to an organization or institution such as a school, hospital or library: · Getty had been the museum's chief benefactor.· The painting was bought by an anonymous benefactor, and donated to the Museum of Modern Art.
a rich person who gives a lot of money to help poorer people: · In Victorian times, factory owners were often also philanthropists.· the millionaire philanthropist, Graham Paulo
someone who has just started a new job, school etc someone who is new has only recently arrived in a place, started working in a particular job, or joined an organization: · You're new here, aren't you?· All new employees are given training.new to: · Children who are new to the school may need extra help.· We don't expect you to work as fast as everyone else, while you're still new to the job.new recruit: · Our club membership is flourishing - we've had a huge number of new recruits this year.
someone who has only recently arrived in a place or only recently started a job, sport, or other activity: · The inhabitants of these remote mountain villages tend to be very suspicious of newcomers.· Our team will include some familiar faces as well as a few newcomers.newcomer to: · Although she's a newcomer to the sport, she's already very successful.comparative/relative newcomer (=someone who has arrived or started doing something recently, compared to other people): · I was fifty and a comparative newcomer to computers.
someone who has just arrived in a place, especially in order to live or work there: · Jim, this is our new arrival, Lyndsay. She'll be taking over from Bob.· 1200 new arrivals, including small children and babies, were left sitting on the pavement outside the embassy.the new arrival (=a newly-born baby): · Gwyn's children, Craig and Laura, are thrilled with the new arrival.
someone who has just arrived in a place which they have never been to before, and which they do not know much about: · The people I stayed with were very kind, so I didn't feel like a stranger for long.· Many of the farming families have lived here for hundreds of years, and tend to treat everyone else as strangers.
someone who is fresh from a place of education has only just finished training and is not experienced when they arrive at a new job: fresh from: · You can't expect teachers fresh from college to deal with large classes of difficult children.fresh out of: · We were under the command of a young lieutenant who was fresh out of officer training school.
American someone who has just started doing a job or playing a professional sport, and has little experience: · It was rookie coach, Ray Rhodes, who got the most credit for keeping the team in check.· a rookie cop
British /freshman American a student who has just started at a university or college: · I was eighteen years old and a freshman at Harvard.· a freshers' party· freshers' week
informal someone who is a new user of a technology, especially the Internet: · The program is simple to use, even for newbies.
someone who starts a new job or joins an organization and is likely to make improvements, for example by introducing more modern ideas and methods: · They seem to be expecting everyone over 50 to step aside and make way for new blood.· After its membership halved in the past year, leaving mainly diehard right-wingers behind, the party now desperately needs new blood.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
Reporters began baying for the president’s blood (=demanding that he be punished). He developed a blood clot on his brain and died. a cold-blooded killer cold-blooded murder The infection was traced to contaminated food. John came in, his arm dripping blood. The hand that held the gun was dripping with sweat. He likes movies with plenty of blood and gore (=violence). He’s lost a lot of blood but his life is not in danger. The animal was weak through loss of blood. a member of an ancient noble family The Marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood. his blood-soaked clothes A blood transfusion saved his life. a burst blood vesselCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(=from a cut or wound)· He had lost a lot of blood and was very weak.
(=provide blood from your body for the medical treatment of other people)· The Health Service is asking for more people to donate blood.
(=make someone bleed)· He touched me with the knife and it drew blood.
· A quick walk will get the blood in your legs flowing again.
(=moves slowly)· The blood was beginning to trickle down his leg.
(=comes out slowly)· Blood was oozing from her forehead.
· His face was covered in blood.
(=moves fast)· A man was lying in the street with blood gushing from his head.
(=forms a mass and stops flowing)· The blood should clot and stop the wound from bleeding.
(=covered with dry blood)· The cat's fur was caked with blood.
(=covered with small spots of blood)· Today the only sign of violence is the walls spattered with blood.
blood + NOUN (=the force with which blood moves through your body)· High blood pressure increases the risk of a heart attack.
(=one of the different types of human blood)· What blood type are you?
· The red blood cells carry oxygen.
(=a tube in your body through which blood flows)· the blood vessels that lead to the heart
(=a mass formed when blood dries or sticks together)· Blood clots in the legs are potentially fatal.
· Fat reduces the blood flow to the surface of the skin.
(=the blood that flows to a part of the body)· the blood supply to the brain
(=a test done on your blood to see if you have a disease or another condition)
(=a small amount of blood taken from your body to test)
(=putting more blood in someone's body for medical reasons)
phrases· Police found tiny drops of blood in the apartment.
· She suffered a massive loss of blood.
· A dark pool of blood was spreading from his head.
· A trickle of blood was coming from his nose.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Reporters began baying for the president’s blood (=demanding that he be punished). (=measure it) The nurse will take your blood pressure.
The nurse will take your blood pressure.· No new brain cells are produced after birth.
(=frighten someone a lot) He jerked his head round and saw something that chilled his blood.
He jerked his head round and saw something that chilled his blood. He developed a blood clot on his brain and died. a cold-blooded killer cold-blooded murder The infection was traced to contaminated food.· She suffers from a rare brain disorder.
· Are you willing to register as a blood donor?
· Donor blood had to be used during the operation.
John came in, his arm dripping blood. The hand that held the gun was dripping with sweat. He likes movies with plenty of blood and gore (=violence). He’s lost a lot of blood but his life is not in danger. The animal was weak through loss of blood. (=not caused by strong emotions)· He didn’t kill his wife in a moment of anger; it was cold-blooded murder.
a member of an ancient noble family The Marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood. (=one related by birth not marriage)· It seems natural to share a house with blood relations.
(=one related by birth not marriage)· 332 kidneys were donated last year by blood relatives or spouses.
· He compared the samples with a blood sample from Mr Green.
his blood-soaked clothes· How can I get coffee stains out of a cotton tablecloth?
(=work very hard) I sweated blood to get that report finished. We’ve been sweating our guts out here!
I sweated blood to get that report finished. We’ve been sweating our guts out here!· A blood test revealed his alcohol level was above the legal limit.
· Family ties have been weakened by older people living apart from their children.
· The ties of friendship that unite the two countries.
A blood transfusion saved his life. American English (=one of the classes into which human blood can be separated)· Mother and child had the same blood type.
a burst blood vessel· Was this not deft proof of how the human gene-pool was constantly deteriorating, how bad blood drove out good?· But bad blood between the two had developed years before that.· But referee Ed Morrison's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge.· There had been bad blood between Laurie and Lisa for months.· Probyn recognises that whenever there is money about, then the potential for bad blood creeping in is always there.· There was bad blood between Uncle Hal and Uncle Charlie.· There is bad blood between the options market's leading dealing firms and the stock exchange.· It will be great theater because there is truly bad blood between the camps of supporters.
· The Kashmiri police say he was taken into custody as a suspect, tortured and shot in cold blood.· And I know of men who claim that they could murder in anger but never in cold blood.· A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out.· They hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood.· But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood?· Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.· This is cold blood, Nigel.· But the temptations of the Flesh were different: they could not be dealt with in cold blood.
· The hepatitis B virus may be stable in dried blood and blood products at room temperature for up to seven days.· The plaster walls were damp and cracked, the floor unswept, its stones stained with dried blood and excrement.· What with that and the dried blood, his wife refuses to eat them, so berries for eating are grown separately.· He looked a mess, his face covered in bruises and dried blood.· The hair looked as though it were smeared with dried blood.· From his mouth crawled a long, dead centipede of dried blood.· As the gaunt farmer Spoke, Sparkes noticed dried blood on his shirt front where it met his breeches.· It's dried blood that's difficult.
· It had smelled blood, fresh blood.· John of the Cross, fresh blood flowed from the wound resulting from an amputated finger.· Zebra walls, curtains drawn across the windows like a second night sky, carpet the colour of fresh blood.· Before the old wound Can be healed, there is fresh blood flowing.· His predecessor, Sir William Heseltine, had at least been fresh blood.· On leaving office he argued that the top level of the civil service needed an injection of fresh blood.· He grimaced at the smell of fresh blood, then pulled the loaded rifle from its holster.
· He's delighted to find my spirits high, my blood pressure low and that apart from the lumps, I remain asymptomatic.· Carolyn Melton of Van Nuys received her first warning seven years ago: Lower the high blood pressure.· He's supposed to have high blood pressure and shouldn't get too excited.· Under these conditions, the researchers observed significantly higher blood levels of alcohol in the women compared with the men.· Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is when the resting blood pressure is higher than normal.· But his history of asthma and a problem with high blood pressure had kept him out.· She had very high blood pressure, and was given two epidurals that didn't work.· From 1988-1998, the death rate from high blood pressure increased 16 percent.
· Indeed, the lower the blood pressure the better, because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks.· The symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include high fever, a rash, vomiting and low blood pressure.· Systematic review of dietary intervention trials to lower blood total cholesterol in free-living subjects.· When the platelet count in your blood drops too low, your blood does not clot as well as usual.· He used to say he could drink quite a bit because he had very low blood pressure.· Permanently low blood pressure, meanwhile, shouldn't be confused with temporary hypotension.· Tomorrow we really do change the bread into meat. Low blood sugar level, that could be half the problem.· Garlic, for instance, can raise low blood pressure and lower high blood pressure.
· For example, some types of animal cells such as red blood cells are filled with salt solution.· I slid off the seat, keeping my eyes down, expecting to see a smear of red blood on the chair.· The seas turned red with blood.· One of the hands in the picture was red with blood.· Urine analysis, a red blood cell count, and blood pressure were also routinely recorded.· Swollen mucous membranes, red and enlarged blood vessels; inflammation of all the tissues of the eye.· Haemolysis: the destruction of red blood cells.· The red of the blood drunk at a feast.
· Lymphocyte: a variety of white blood cell.· His body was erroneously producing a flood of white blood cells in a frantic search for a disease that did not exist.· In two-thirds of such patients, white blood cells known as T-Lymphocytes that are produced by the marrow attack their fresh surroundings.· Glover saw his face, dense as coal, no white blood, none of the high tones of the day.· It is used to stimulate the white blood cells.· Plasma is the protein-rich water that remains when red and white blood cells are removed from blood.· Later, the patient was in severe, but expected, danger from a depletion of his own healthy white blood cells.· When white blood cells are damaged, your ability to fight off infections is reduced.
· Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the river sprucing up their horses for the fair.· The holds the body while the young red blood squirts out and slashes the base of the li in criss-cross patterns.· But Kit wasn't having some young blood replace his female prizes.· He stopped once to look at the young blood sleeping among the Begonias.· Well, that 25-yard volley makes it two-nil to the young bloods.
NOUN· Still, there was always food here at the blood bank as well as plenty of sweetened fluids to quickly restore energy.· The World Around Us Fascinating topics for young learners ranging from blood banks to deserts.· It's as if Vlad the Impaler had been selected to run Britain's blood bank.
· Research has suggested that for blood cells, this lipid asymmetry may help to maintain the delicate balance between haemostasis and thrombosis.· They can manufacture a whole host of body parts, from neurons to muscles to blood cells.· As the cells proceed from the stem cell to the various mature blood cell types they divide many times.· Plasma is the protein-rich water that remains when red and white blood cells are removed from blood.· The most vulnerable cells were those which the body renews most frequently; especially the white blood cells, including the lymphocytes.· Since 1998, white blood cells have been removed from donated blood.· These cells must be replaced and involve a process similar to that of blood cells.· The blood cells made in the spongy area inside our large bones are of three types.
· Neurosurgeons have successfully moved a blood clot from her brain and are keeping a close watch on her.· Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg, but Jennifer died when a blood clot caused a pulmonary embolism.· This is the formation of a blood clot in a deep lying vein, which needs immediate medical treatment.· The blockage is usually caused by a blood clot forming in an artery already narrowed by fatty atheroma.· The operation had gone all right, but the aftermath was not good-culminating in a blood clot.· But eight days later he developed a blood clot and died.· They wanted to know why doctors didn't notice a swelling, caused by the blood clot, for two days.
· Who can become a blood donor?· Blood Transfusion Currently all blood donors are initially screened and blood is not accepted from high risk individuals.· The National Blood Transfusion Service is entirely dependent on voluntary blood donors.· That statistic comes from a mail-in survey of 34, 700 blood donors nationwide, he said.· Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.· It is not as though regular blood donors receive preferential treatment when they come to need a transfusion.· Our contracts specify that private patients, many of whom are themselves blood donors, are not charged for the blood itself.
· This is seen as a greyish-white accumulation of material which grows and obstructs blood flow.· During either chore, many areas of your brain would receive increased blood flow.· Not tightly enough to restrict the blood flow, but sufficient to make her long to be able to stretch.· Watch the blood flow freely and smoothly through the muscles.· Mefenamic acid will reduce blood flow by between 30 and 45 per cent.· Other important methods measure regional changes in blood flow within the brain.· Scalp stimulants can help to revitalise dormant hair follicles by increasing the blood flow to the scalp.· We have not studied whether indomethacin affects arterial blood flow.
· A reasonable course is to measure the blood glucose of all patients when they present with infarction.· Of these six hormones, insulin is the only one that decreases the blood glucose level.· A nonlinear relationship was observed between coronary heart and stroke mortality with the two hour postprandial blood glucose.· Regular exercise may also help to control blood glucose.· Diabetics and those with postprandial blood glucose levels between 5.4-11.· Insulin therapy is started if blood glucose levels remain elevated despite following these measures.· Ideally, the diagnosis should be confirmed before treatment, and this can be done with capillary blood glucose test sticks.· Most studies have found no increase in fetal mortality when blood glucose levels are controlled in this way.
· Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris, 1987.· The first thing he saw was her blood group.· Thirty five healthy subjects with different blood groups were also included in the study.· And three of them needed A-Negative, Faye's blood group.· Few traits reach the extreme of a heritability of one, although blood groups in humans are an example.· Is blood group an inherited characteristic?· One of the more scientific attempts to discover their origins was an investigation of their blood group.
· Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract.· Peptic ulceration may cause chronic gastrointestinal blood loss as well as an acute bleed.· If blood loss during operation has been excessive, previously cross-matched blood will be transfused.· Efficient emergency treatment relies upon being able to stem the blood loss with a tourniquet around the foot.· The deep cuts had missed the major blood vessels and nerves in his neck, but had caused considerable blood loss.· The results are expressed as mean daily blood loss.· The upper limit of normal for gastrointestinal blood loss is less than 1.0 ml/day.
· Between 1945 and 1956, many research findings identified other factors which affected the blood pressure.· Prevents or delays high blood pressure, and reduces blood pressure in people with hypertension. 7.· Changes in blood pressure and activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system may contribute to these different effects.· High blood pressure means the heart is straining to pump blood.· Somatostatin is known to reduce splanchnic blood flow without modifying systemic arterial blood pressure.· The study also found that garlic supplements reduced blood pressure modestly, confirming results from previous studies.· If a doctor treats a patient with high blood pressure he records blood pressure levels before, during and after treatment.· That diet lowered their blood pressure as much as a typical blood-pressure-lowering medication would.
· The vaccine does not contain any blood products.· The hepatitis B virus may be stable in dried blood and blood products at room temperature for up to seven days.· The second subcategory of blood-to-blood contact is transmission by receipt of contaminated blood transfusions or of contaminated blood products.· Hospitals reportedly are postponing chemotherapy treatments because of limited supplies of blood products.· A revolution in the use of blood transfusions and blood products.· Through infected blood and blood products entering the bloodstream.· Now that we know how to prepare safe blood products to aid clotting, this is unlikely to happen.
· One blood sample was taken before endoscopy and the patients then had a colonoscopy to the caecum.· A membrane selectively permeable to gases separates the buffer from the blood sample.· Beside it was a test-tube holder with a series of blood samples.· There too men are being asked to give blood samples.· It does not even include the taking of a blood sample.· So far 650 blood samples have been taken.· The police took blood samples from just about every male in the vicinity.· Next she's going to ask me to produce a blood sample.
· All carbohydrates, sugars and starches are converted into blood sugar.· Circulating glucose remains in the blood, leading to a rise in blood sugar.· Jonathan had been taken to hospital and his blood sugar level had been found to be abnormally low.· Without insulin, blood sugar can not move into cells.· This just produces a swift blood sugar surge which rapidly declines - a solid breakfast which releases energy slowly is far better.· When you eat a big load of sugar, your blood sugar levels rise.· To provide this energy, stores of blood sugar and fats are metabolized.· You use insulin to store the excess sugar away until your blood sugar levels drop.
· It is not, in fact, the heart itself that tends to fail, but its blood supply.· Teeth usually become less sensitive as their nerve and blood supply decreases.· It also increases uterine blood supply and tone, relaxes the cervix and brings the goat into oestrus.· There are at least a dozen other restrictions aimed at preserving blood supply safety.· In Raynaud's disease, the blood supply to the fingers is faulty, leading to attacks of numbness and discomfort.· The blood supply in major Western countries is now safer than it has ever been.· Other organs, although vital in their own way, can not survive without a blood supply rich in oxygen and nutrients.· Reduced blood supply prevents healing, leading to infections and the development of ulcers.
· They may include blood tests, X-rays or scans.· The famous Wassermann diagnostic blood test for syphilis has been used for forty years.· The parents face a nightmare week-long wait before blood tests show if there has been a hospital blunder.· Anyways, when Belinda died, she asked me to take a blood test.· She must have recently had a blood test.· A blood test can be used to find out whether a person's blood contains antibodies to the virus.· Returning for the blood test results is worth $ 10.
· Every 3 weeks her baby needs a blood transfusion.· Treatments, including dialysis and blood transfusion, failed, and Rash died of heart failure.· During an effort to overcome one of those problems - a heart defect - surgeons gave the boy a blood transfusion.· Thyroidectomy was performed without problem or need for blood transfusion.· Both groups received a similar volume of blood transfusion.· Shortly afterwards Miss T. told the midwife that she did not want a blood transfusion.· I was to have a blood transfusion before he could operate.· Remember - one day you may owe your life to a blood transfusion.
· Some people need blood transfusions as part of ordinary medical treatment for all kinds of illnesses.· The second subcategory of blood-to-blood contact is transmission by receipt of contaminated blood transfusions or of contaminated blood products.· Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity.· A revolution in the use of blood transfusions and blood products.· Filtered blood is widely used to treat recurrent non-haemolytic febrile reactions in patients who depend on regular blood transfusions.· Although a new and growing field in medicine, placental blood transfusions have proved effective in combating leukemia and other cancers.· Treatment consisted in giving blood transfusions over a number of hours.· He spent three years in and out of hospitals and received more than three hundred blood transfusions.
· But an inquest heard that the rupture in the blood vessel was not caused by the operation.· Just as in a bruise under the skin, a blood vessel in the brain can leak.· Its bite produces a worm which swells up the blood vessels, causing ulcers and, in the worst cases, blindness.· One-quarter of this extracellular fluid is contained within blood vessels as the plasma space.· Most acted directly on the blood vessels.· Everything in me is congealing-guts, glands, blood vessels, organs, bones.· He was well beaten and in a later race broke a blood vessel.· Doctors first thought it reduced blood pressure by relaxing the blood vessels, Rubin said.
VERB· It is customary to check patients' blood coagulation before ERCp and correct any detected abnormality.· Doctors can easily check blood levels of B-12 and folic acid, he says.· It's a good idea to ask your doctor to check your blood pressure each visit.· We had a veterinarian call and tell us to check Marcus' blood pressure.· And as well as a physical examination, your vet will want to check urine and blood samples.· We have actors in trauma here. Check their blood gases.· Additional reasons for checking the blood pressure are marked retinopathy or any evidence of proteinuria.· The cost of blood testing strips used by diabetics to check their blood sugar also would be paid by Medicare.
· Since 1998, white blood cells have been removed from donated blood.· Another theory for her longevity: that the person who donated the tainted blood may have been relatively healthy, Wara said.· Each person who volunteers to donate blood goes through several screening steps before getting stuck with a needle.· Oh yeah, and he donates blood to the Red Cross.· Each is paid $ 40 to give an hourlong interview and donate two vials of blood.· Persons who have engaged in homosexual activities or have shot street drugs within the last 10 years should never donate blood.· Blood transfusions would transmit syphilis, except that blood-screening programs test all donated blood for evidence of the disease.· Risk of HIV-transmission through donated blood: 1 in 450, 000-660, 000.
· Blood banks must balance hospitals' need for blood with the need to draw blood only from healthy, relatively risk-free volunteers.· It was vicious, and it drew blood.· It should be exercised so hard, so incessantly, that it swells in effort and draws all your blood!· It was the Kings who drew early blood racing into an eight two lead.· As a Manila barrio streetfighter, he had drawn more blood than Dracula in a year of Halloween nights.· They vary from superficial scratches to full-thickness lacerations, but almost invariably draw blood.· He set immediately to work cutting and eating the chop, drawing the blood away from his brain.
· The bullet was deep in my arm, and I lost a lot of blood.· He had lost blood profusely and had collapsed.· Under the rock, he could feel himself losing a lot of blood.· He had lost a lot of blood and was lapsing in and out of consciousness.· Having lost several pints of blood due to a nasal haemorrhage, he was much too weak to continue.· Some vertebrates, including ourselves, lose water from the blood.· He's lost a lot of blood.· He lost four pints of blood and required 17 stitches.
· Suppose his hand slipped, suppose he were to shed Marcus's blood?· Only the simpler, uglier land mine has shed more blood.· Atone for death by death. Shed blood for old blood shed.· They visited with terrible punishment those who shed the blood of kin did.
· You do not spill blood on your own carpet.· A number of the men feared the spilled blood, but the rest of the men laughed at them.· She had not spilled his blood before.· The execution chair was designed with splatter guards to capture spilled blood.· One time they spill the blood.
· The blanket slipped from his shoulders, disclosing the white T-shirt, its front stained soaked - with blood.· He had a couple of hundred dollars on top of the dashboard, folded in butcher wrap stained with lamb-chop blood.· By the time he had pulled the corpse out into the street, Valenzuela's clothes were stained with blood.· She will not have her altar stained with human blood.· They were stained with her blood and with the pallid cream of Stephen's semen.· We were given clothes of hers that were stained with blood.· His chest is suddenly stained with blood as something pulses frantically beneath his thin shirt.· The priest's cassock was stained with vomit and blood.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► like getting blood out of a stone► be after somebody’s blood► somebody’s blood is up► blood, sweat, and tears► blood on the carpetPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► make your blood curdle► the colour/blood drains from somebody’s face/cheeks► somebody’s blood freezes► blood rushes to somebody’s face/cheeks
- For most cannibals, blood is thicker than water.
- It seemed to be in his blood.
- It would be in his blood in minutes.
- Psychic awareness ran in my blood.
- Donald sweated blood to build up his business.
- Although I remember seeing some one eating chips from a story I'd sweated blood on when I was working in Worcester.
- I could have understood it in Cottee's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton.
- If I had to sweat blood it would be done.
- The firm desperately needs some new blood.
- About the time Ed began getting restless, a family-owned firm in the same industry was looking for new blood.
- After that, a simple change to a new blood pressure medication solved the problem for good.
- Before the old wound Can be healed, there is fresh blood flowing.
- It had smelled blood, fresh blood.
- That began to change in recent years, as the Academy membership took on new blood.
- The new blood testing exercise will cost up to five thousand pounds.
- The Treasury, where two ministers were election casualties, receives an infusion of new blood.
- Then our heart rate climbs, steadily, until our ears are gulping on the new blood.
- But I already have too much blood on my hands.
- Dad with blood on his hands.
- He hated to see her with blood on her hands.
- I want him to know he has my son's blood on his hands.
- Republicans spent eight years trying to prove President Clinton had blood on his hands.
- There's blood on my hands, mine or hers I don't know.
- There was blood on his hands and I thought he'd had an accident.
- It's about time we got some young blood in this company.
- But Kit wasn't having some young blood replace his female prizes.
- He stopped once to look at the young blood sleeping among the Begonias.
- Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the river sprucing up their horses for the fair.
- Well, that 25-yard volley makes it two-nil to the young bloods.
- He murdered the old man in cold blood.
- The killers hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood.
- A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out.
- And I know of men who claim that they could murder in anger but never in cold blood.
- But the temptations of the Flesh were different: they could not be dealt with in cold blood.
- But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood?
- Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.
- The Kashmiri police say he was taken into custody as a suspect, tortured and shot in cold blood.
- They hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood.
- They would have been murdered in cold blood.
- Because I like you, Breeze, and it makes my blood boil to think of you slaving away as you do.
- It's a subject that makes my blood boil and disappointments have left me a blister short of swearing.
- It was an infuriating trait, and it made her blood boil every time he came near.
- Thinking about it now made my blood boil.
- You know, when I think about it, it still makes my blood boil.
- But whenever she passed the wood the tales rushed back into her mind and made her blood run cold.
- Ex-inmate Tony Cohla told yesterday how the thought of ever returning to Ashworth makes his blood run cold.
- He said their evidence had made his blood run cold.
- There'd been some bad blood between Jose and Arriola over a woman.
- But bad blood between the two had developed years before that.
- But referee Ed Morrison's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge.
- It will be great theater because there is truly bad blood between the camps of supporters.
- Probyn recognises that whenever there is money about, then the potential for bad blood creeping in is always there.
- There had been bad blood between Laurie and Lisa for months.
- There is bad blood between the options market's leading dealing firms and the stock exchange.
- There was bad blood between Uncle Hal and Uncle Charlie.
- Was this not deft proof of how the human gene-pool was constantly deteriorating, how bad blood drove out good?
- But where had his Glover genes come from if his father was in a sperm bank?
- Fertility clinics and sperm banks in the United States often are privately run and are subject to few government restrictions.
- In 1987, the agency had directed blood banks to similarly disqualify donors who have received pituitary-derived growth hormone.
- In person, however, they have matured about as much as a sperm in a deep frozen sperm bank.
- Still, there was always food here at the blood bank as well as plenty of sweetened fluids to quickly restore energy.
- The chief donors to sperm banks were medical students.
- The World Around Us Fascinating topics for young learners ranging from blood banks to deserts.
- Another cause related to blood-drawing is hemolysis of drawn blood.
- Blood banks must balance hospitals' need for blood with the need to draw blood only from healthy, relatively risk-free volunteers.
- He carried on ripping and tearing at his legs relentlessly and with sickening ferocity, even drawing blood at times.
- He wanted to feel his fist bruise flesh, smash bone, draw blood.
- Lee has stepped over zonked-out bodies to draw blood for syphilis tests.
- They would draw blood or take little pieces of meat as you pulled them off, and it would burn like fire.
- He raised those kids like they were his own flesh and blood.
- After its membership halved in the past year, leaving mainly diehard right-wingers behind, the party now desperately needs new blood.
- Every election brings a supply of new blood to the legislature.
- They seem to be expecting everyone over 50 to step aside and make way for new blood.
- After that, a simple change to a new blood pressure medication solved the problem for good.
- If the underlying cause persists, however, then a suffocating blanket of activated lymphocytes surrounds every new blood vessel.
- It got some new blood in here.
- The new blood testing exercise will cost up to five thousand pounds.
- The system has resulted in new blood coming into the television industry.
- The Treasury, where two ministers were election casualties, receives an infusion of new blood.
- Then our heart rate climbs, steadily, until our ears are gulping on the new blood.
- They give you new blood plasma.
- A pool of light, expanding circles, merging, dragging me down.
- A guard found him lying in a pool of blood, and a doctor saved him.
- After they are replaced, the spent fuel rods are cooled for several years in pools of water at the plants.
- His black telephone sat captive in a pool of light, ready for interrogation.
- She leaves the coach and wanders through fields for many miles until between trees she sees a deep black pool of water.
- The kind of pool of light depends on whether the bulb fitted inside is a spot, flood or an ordinary bulb.
- Then on the fifth day, mid-morning, a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon.
- There was a pool of blood on the tarmac now, around his head.
- How could any red-blooded male ignore the message the actress was sending so blatantly? she wondered despairingly.
- Wish I'd met her ten, twenty years ago when I could still pass as a red-blooded male.
- Too much blood has already been shed in this conflict.
- A number of the men feared the spilled blood, but the rest of the men laughed at them.
- Internal haemorrhaging spills blood into the stomach, and this causes a telltale black vomit.
- People throw bricks, fight cops, disrupt Sunday services in churches, and spill blood all over the floor.
- The execution chair was designed with splatter guards to capture spilled blood.
- You do not spill blood on your own carpet.
- They were racing here and there, and when wave tops collided, throwing up great spouts of water.
WORD FAMILYnounbloodbleedingadjectivebloodlessbloodyverbbleed
1the red liquid that your heart pumps around your body: Her body was found in a pool of blood. Blood oozed from a cut on his forehead. Blood tests proved he was not the father.2(have) somebody’s blood on your hands to have caused someone’s death: dictators with blood on their hands3in cold blood in a cruel and deliberate way: Evans had been murdered in cold blood.4make somebody’s blood boil to make someone extremely angry: The way they treat people makes my blood boil.5make somebody’s blood run cold to make someone feel extremely frightened6like getting blood out of a stone almost impossible: Getting the truth out of her is like getting blood out of a stone.7blood is thicker than water used to say that family relationships are more important than any other kind8be after somebody’s blood to be angry enough to want to hurt someone9somebody’s blood is up British English someone is extremely angry about something and determined to do something about it: They tried to stop me, but my blood was up.10the family to which you belong from the time that you are born: There’s Irish blood on his mother’s side.11be/run in somebody’s blood if an ability or tendency is in, or runs in, someone’s blood, it is natural to them and others in their family12sweat blood to work extremely hard to achieve something: Beth sweated blood over that article.13blood, sweat, and tears extremely hard work14new/fresh blood new members in a group or organization who bring new ideas and energy: We need to bring in some new blood and fresh ideas.15blood on the carpet a situation where people have a very strong disagreement, with the result that something serious happens, such as someone losing his or her job16young blood old-fashioned a fashionable young man17spoken informal a way of greeting a friend, used by young men → bad blood at bad1(27), → blue-blooded, red blood cell, white blood cell, → your own flesh and blood at flesh1(6), → shed blood at shed2(5)COLLOCATIONSverbslose blood (=from a cut or wound)· He had lost a lot of blood and was very weak.give/donate blood (=provide blood from your body for the medical treatment of other people)· The Health Service is asking for more people to donate blood.draw blood (=make someone bleed)· He touched me with the knife and it drew blood.blood flows· A quick walk will get the blood in your legs flowing again.blood trickles (=moves slowly)· The blood was beginning to trickle down his leg.blood oozes (=comes out slowly)· Blood was oozing from her forehead.be covered in blood· His face was covered in blood.blood gushes/streams (=moves fast)· A man was lying in the street with blood gushing from his head.blood clots (=forms a mass and stops flowing)· The blood should clot and stop the wound from bleeding.be caked with blood (=covered with dry blood)· The cat's fur was caked with blood.be spattered/splattered with blood (=covered with small spots of blood)· Today the only sign of violence is the walls spattered with blood.blood + NOUNblood pressure (=the force with which blood moves through your body)· High blood pressure increases the risk of a heart attack.somebody's blood type/group (=one of the different types of human blood)· What blood type are you?a blood cell· The red blood cells carry oxygen.a blood vessel (=a tube in your body through which blood flows)· the blood vessels that lead to the hearta blood clot (=a mass formed when blood dries or sticks together)· Blood clots in the legs are potentially fatal.the blood flow· Fat reduces the blood flow to the surface of the skin.the blood supply (=the blood that flows to a part of the body)· the blood supply to the braina blood test (=a test done on your blood to see if you have a disease or another condition)a blood sample (=a small amount of blood taken from your body to test)a blood transfusion (=putting more blood in someone's body for medical reasons)phrasesa drop of blood· Police found tiny drops of blood in the apartment.loss of blood· She suffered a massive loss of blood.a pool of blood· A dark pool of blood was spreading from his head.a trickle of blood· A trickle of blood was coming from his nose.blood1 nounblood2 verb
bloodblood2 verb [transitive] EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- For I am writing this on Saturday evening, and already I have been blooded.
- He has had a feverish complaint and has been blooded.
- In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded.
- It was too long to go without being blooded.
- Look how he blooded Speed and Batty ... he didnt chuck them in and hope for the best.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Reporters began baying for the president’s blood (=demanding that he be punished). He developed a blood clot on his brain and died. a cold-blooded killer cold-blooded murder The infection was traced to contaminated food. John came in, his arm dripping blood. The hand that held the gun was dripping with sweat. He likes movies with plenty of blood and gore (=violence). He’s lost a lot of blood but his life is not in danger. The animal was weak through loss of blood. a member of an ancient noble family The Marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood. his blood-soaked clothes A blood transfusion saved his life. a burst blood vessel
Reporters began baying for the president’s blood (=demanding that he be punished). (=measure it) The nurse will take your blood pressure.
The nurse will take your blood pressure.· No new brain cells are produced after birth.
(=frighten someone a lot) He jerked his head round and saw something that chilled his blood.
He jerked his head round and saw something that chilled his blood. He developed a blood clot on his brain and died. a cold-blooded killer cold-blooded murder The infection was traced to contaminated food.· She suffers from a rare brain disorder.
· Are you willing to register as a blood donor?
· Donor blood had to be used during the operation.
John came in, his arm dripping blood. The hand that held the gun was dripping with sweat. He likes movies with plenty of blood and gore (=violence). He’s lost a lot of blood but his life is not in danger. The animal was weak through loss of blood. (=not caused by strong emotions)· He didn’t kill his wife in a moment of anger; it was cold-blooded murder.
a member of an ancient noble family The Marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood. (=one related by birth not marriage)· It seems natural to share a house with blood relations.
(=one related by birth not marriage)· 332 kidneys were donated last year by blood relatives or spouses.
· He compared the samples with a blood sample from Mr Green.
his blood-soaked clothes· How can I get coffee stains out of a cotton tablecloth?
(=work very hard) I sweated blood to get that report finished. We’ve been sweating our guts out here!
I sweated blood to get that report finished. We’ve been sweating our guts out here!· A blood test revealed his alcohol level was above the legal limit.
· Family ties have been weakened by older people living apart from their children.
· The ties of friendship that unite the two countries.
A blood transfusion saved his life. American English (=one of the classes into which human blood can be separated)· Mother and child had the same blood type.
a burst blood vesselPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► make your blood curdle► the colour/blood drains from somebody’s face/cheeks► somebody’s blood freezes► blood rushes to somebody’s face/cheeks
British English to give someone their first experience of an activity, especially a difficult or unpleasant one- There'd been some bad blood between Jose and Arriola over a woman.
- But bad blood between the two had developed years before that.
- But referee Ed Morrison's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge.
- It will be great theater because there is truly bad blood between the camps of supporters.
- Probyn recognises that whenever there is money about, then the potential for bad blood creeping in is always there.
- There had been bad blood between Laurie and Lisa for months.
- There is bad blood between the options market's leading dealing firms and the stock exchange.
- There was bad blood between Uncle Hal and Uncle Charlie.
- Was this not deft proof of how the human gene-pool was constantly deteriorating, how bad blood drove out good?
- But where had his Glover genes come from if his father was in a sperm bank?
- Fertility clinics and sperm banks in the United States often are privately run and are subject to few government restrictions.
- In 1987, the agency had directed blood banks to similarly disqualify donors who have received pituitary-derived growth hormone.
- In person, however, they have matured about as much as a sperm in a deep frozen sperm bank.
- Still, there was always food here at the blood bank as well as plenty of sweetened fluids to quickly restore energy.
- The chief donors to sperm banks were medical students.
- The World Around Us Fascinating topics for young learners ranging from blood banks to deserts.
- Another cause related to blood-drawing is hemolysis of drawn blood.
- Blood banks must balance hospitals' need for blood with the need to draw blood only from healthy, relatively risk-free volunteers.
- He carried on ripping and tearing at his legs relentlessly and with sickening ferocity, even drawing blood at times.
- He wanted to feel his fist bruise flesh, smash bone, draw blood.
- Lee has stepped over zonked-out bodies to draw blood for syphilis tests.
- They would draw blood or take little pieces of meat as you pulled them off, and it would burn like fire.
- He raised those kids like they were his own flesh and blood.
- After its membership halved in the past year, leaving mainly diehard right-wingers behind, the party now desperately needs new blood.
- Every election brings a supply of new blood to the legislature.
- They seem to be expecting everyone over 50 to step aside and make way for new blood.
- After that, a simple change to a new blood pressure medication solved the problem for good.
- If the underlying cause persists, however, then a suffocating blanket of activated lymphocytes surrounds every new blood vessel.
- It got some new blood in here.
- The new blood testing exercise will cost up to five thousand pounds.
- The system has resulted in new blood coming into the television industry.
- The Treasury, where two ministers were election casualties, receives an infusion of new blood.
- Then our heart rate climbs, steadily, until our ears are gulping on the new blood.
- They give you new blood plasma.
- A pool of light, expanding circles, merging, dragging me down.
- A guard found him lying in a pool of blood, and a doctor saved him.
- After they are replaced, the spent fuel rods are cooled for several years in pools of water at the plants.
- His black telephone sat captive in a pool of light, ready for interrogation.
- She leaves the coach and wanders through fields for many miles until between trees she sees a deep black pool of water.
- The kind of pool of light depends on whether the bulb fitted inside is a spot, flood or an ordinary bulb.
- Then on the fifth day, mid-morning, a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon.
- There was a pool of blood on the tarmac now, around his head.
- How could any red-blooded male ignore the message the actress was sending so blatantly? she wondered despairingly.
- Wish I'd met her ten, twenty years ago when I could still pass as a red-blooded male.
- Too much blood has already been shed in this conflict.
- A number of the men feared the spilled blood, but the rest of the men laughed at them.
- Internal haemorrhaging spills blood into the stomach, and this causes a telltale black vomit.
- People throw bricks, fight cops, disrupt Sunday services in churches, and spill blood all over the floor.
- The execution chair was designed with splatter guards to capture spilled blood.
- You do not spill blood on your own carpet.
- They were racing here and there, and when wave tops collided, throwing up great spouts of water.
- Roc
- Rochester, Mrs
- rock
- rockabilly
- rock and roll
- Rock Around the Clock
- rock bottom
- rock-bottom
- rock climber
- rock climbing
- Rockefeller, John D.
- Rockefeller, Nelson
- rocker
- rockery
- rocket
- rocket science
- rocket scientist
- rock face
- rockfall
- rock garden
- rock-hard
- Rockies
- rocking chair
- rocking horse
- rock music