I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood donor
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Are you willing to register as a blood donor?
a blood relation (= one related by birth not marriage )
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It seems natural to share a house with blood relations.
a blood relative (= one related by birth not marriage )
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332 kidneys were donated last year by blood relatives or spouses.
a blood test
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A blood test revealed his alcohol level was above the legal limit.
a blood/brain/liver etc disorder
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She suffers from a rare brain disorder.
a blood/nerve/brain/muscle etc cell
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No new brain cells are produced after birth.
a blood/urine/tissue etc sample
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He compared the samples with a blood sample from Mr Green.
a wine/coffee/blood etc stain
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How can I get coffee stains out of a cotton tablecloth?
baying for...blood (= demanding that he be punished )
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Reporters began baying for the president’s blood .
be dripping with blood/sweat etc
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The hand that held the gun was dripping with sweat.
blood and gore (= violence )
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He likes movies with plenty of blood and gore .
blood bank
blood brother
blood clot
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He developed a blood clot on his brain and died.
blood count
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Her blood count is very low.
blood donor
blood feud
blood group
blood heat
blood lust
blood money
blood orange
blood poisoning
blood pressure
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high blood pressure
blood relation
blood sport
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a demonstration against blood sports
blood transfusion
blood transfusion
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A blood transfusion saved his life.
blood type American English (= one of the classes into which human blood can be separated )
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Mother and child had the same blood type.
blood type
blood vessel
blood vessel
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a burst blood vessel
check/take sb’s blood pressure (= measure it )
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The nurse will take your blood pressure.
chill sb to the bone/chill sb to the marrow/chill sb’s blood (= frighten sb a lot )
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He jerked his head round and saw something that chilled his blood.
contaminated food/blood/water supplies etc
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The infection was traced to contaminated food.
donor blood
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Donor blood had to be used during the operation.
drip blood/water/sweat etc
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John came in, his arm dripping blood.
family/blood ties
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Family ties have been weakened by older people living apart from their children.
loss of blood
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The animal was weak through loss of blood .
lost a lot of blood
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He’s lost a lot of blood but his life is not in danger.
noble family/blood/birth etc
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a member of an ancient noble family
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The Marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood.
red blood cell
sweat blood/sweat your guts out (= work very hard )
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I sweated blood to get that report finished.
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We’ve been sweating our guts out here!
ties of marriage/friendship/blood etc
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The ties of friendship that unite the two countries.
white blood cell
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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Was this not deft proof of how the human gene-pool was constantly deteriorating, how bad blood drove out good?
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But bad blood between the two had developed years before that.
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But referee Ed Morrison's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge.
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There had been bad blood between Laurie and Lisa for months.
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Probyn recognises that whenever there is money about, then the potential for bad blood creeping in is always there.
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There was bad blood between Uncle Hal and Uncle Charlie.
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There is bad blood between the options market's leading dealing firms and the stock exchange.
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It will be great theater because there is truly bad blood between the camps of supporters.
cold
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The Kashmiri police say he was taken into custody as a suspect, tortured and shot in cold blood .
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And I know of men who claim that they could murder in anger but never in cold blood .
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A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out.
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They hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood .
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But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ?
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Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.
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This is cold blood , Nigel.
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But the temptations of the Flesh were different: they could not be dealt with in cold blood .
dried
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The hepatitis B virus may be stable in dried blood and blood products at room temperature for up to seven days.
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The plaster walls were damp and cracked, the floor unswept, its stones stained with dried blood and excrement.
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What with that and the dried blood , his wife refuses to eat them, so berries for eating are grown separately.
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He looked a mess, his face covered in bruises and dried blood .
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The hair looked as though it were smeared with dried blood .
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From his mouth crawled a long, dead centipede of dried blood .
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As the gaunt farmer Spoke, Sparkes noticed dried blood on his shirt front where it met his breeches.
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It's dried blood that's difficult.
fresh
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It had smelled blood , fresh blood.
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John of the Cross, fresh blood flowed from the wound resulting from an amputated finger.
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Zebra walls, curtains drawn across the windows like a second night sky, carpet the colour of fresh blood .
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Before the old wound Can be healed, there is fresh blood flowing.
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His predecessor, Sir William Heseltine, had at least been fresh blood .
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On leaving office he argued that the top level of the civil service needed an injection of fresh blood .
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He grimaced at the smell of fresh blood , then pulled the loaded rifle from its holster.
high
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He's delighted to find my spirits high , my blood pressure low and that apart from the lumps, I remain asymptomatic.
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Carolyn Melton of Van Nuys received her first warning seven years ago: Lower the high blood pressure.
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He's supposed to have high blood pressure and shouldn't get too excited.
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Under these conditions, the researchers observed significantly higher blood levels of alcohol in the women compared with the men.
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Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is when the resting blood pressure is higher than normal.
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But his history of asthma and a problem with high blood pressure had kept him out.
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She had very high blood pressure, and was given two epidurals that didn't work.
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From 1988-1998, the death rate from high blood pressure increased 16 percent.
low
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Indeed, the lower the blood pressure the better, because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks.
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The symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include high fever, a rash, vomiting and low blood pressure.
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Systematic review of dietary intervention trials to lower blood total cholesterol in free-living subjects.
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When the platelet count in your blood drops too low , your blood does not clot as well as usual.
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He used to say he could drink quite a bit because he had very low blood pressure.
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Permanently low blood pressure, meanwhile, shouldn't be confused with temporary hypotension.
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Tomorrow we really do change the bread into meat. Low blood sugar level, that could be half the problem.
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Garlic, for instance, can raise low blood pressure and lower high blood pressure.
red
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For example, some types of animal cells such as red blood cells are filled with salt solution.
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I slid off the seat, keeping my eyes down, expecting to see a smear of red blood on the chair.
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The seas turned red with blood .
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One of the hands in the picture was red with blood .
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Urine analysis, a red blood cell count, and blood pressure were also routinely recorded.
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Swollen mucous membranes, red and enlarged blood vessels; inflammation of all the tissues of the eye.
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Haemolysis: the destruction of red blood cells.
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The red of the blood drunk at a feast.
white
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Lymphocyte: a variety of white blood cell.
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His body was erroneously producing a flood of white blood cells in a frantic search for a disease that did not exist.
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In two-thirds of such patients, white blood cells known as T-Lymphocytes that are produced by the marrow attack their fresh surroundings.
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Glover saw his face, dense as coal, no white blood , none of the high tones of the day.
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It is used to stimulate the white blood cells.
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Plasma is the protein-rich water that remains when red and white blood cells are removed from blood.
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Later, the patient was in severe, but expected, danger from a depletion of his own healthy white blood cells.
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When white blood cells are damaged, your ability to fight off infections is reduced.
young
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Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the river sprucing up their horses for the fair.
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The holds the body while the young red blood squirts out and slashes the base of the li in criss-cross patterns.
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But Kit wasn't having some young blood replace his female prizes.
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He stopped once to look at the young blood sleeping among the Begonias.
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Well, that 25-yard volley makes it two-nil to the young bloods .
■ NOUN
bank
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Still, there was always food here at the blood bank as well as plenty of sweetened fluids to quickly restore energy.
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The World Around Us Fascinating topics for young learners ranging from blood banks to deserts.
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It's as if Vlad the Impaler had been selected to run Britain's blood bank .
cell
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Research has suggested that for blood cells , this lipid asymmetry may help to maintain the delicate balance between haemostasis and thrombosis.
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They can manufacture a whole host of body parts, from neurons to muscles to blood cells .
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As the cells proceed from the stem cell to the various mature blood cell types they divide many times.
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Plasma is the protein-rich water that remains when red and white blood cells are removed from blood.
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The most vulnerable cells were those which the body renews most frequently; especially the white blood cells, including the lymphocytes.
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Since 1998, white blood cells have been removed from donated blood.
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These cells must be replaced and involve a process similar to that of blood cells.
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The blood cells made in the spongy area inside our large bones are of three types.
clot
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Neurosurgeons have successfully moved a blood clot from her brain and are keeping a close watch on her.
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Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg, but Jennifer died when a blood clot caused a pulmonary embolism.
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This is the formation of a blood clot in a deep lying vein, which needs immediate medical treatment.
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The blockage is usually caused by a blood clot forming in an artery already narrowed by fatty atheroma.
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The operation had gone all right, but the aftermath was not good-culminating in a blood clot .
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But eight days later he developed a blood clot and died.
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They wanted to know why doctors didn't notice a swelling, caused by the blood clot , for two days.
donor
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Who can become a blood donor ?
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Blood Transfusion Currently all blood donors are initially screened and blood is not accepted from high risk individuals.
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The National Blood Transfusion Service is entirely dependent on voluntary blood donors .
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That statistic comes from a mail-in survey of 34, 700 blood donors nationwide, he said.
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Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.
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It is not as though regular blood donors receive preferential treatment when they come to need a transfusion.
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Our contracts specify that private patients, many of whom are themselves blood donors , are not charged for the blood itself.
flow
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This is seen as a greyish-white accumulation of material which grows and obstructs blood flow .
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During either chore, many areas of your brain would receive increased blood flow .
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Not tightly enough to restrict the blood flow , but sufficient to make her long to be able to stretch.
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Watch the blood flow freely and smoothly through the muscles.
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Mefenamic acid will reduce blood flow by between 30 and 45 per cent.
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Other important methods measure regional changes in blood flow within the brain.
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Scalp stimulants can help to revitalise dormant hair follicles by increasing the blood flow to the scalp.
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We have not studied whether indomethacin affects arterial blood flow .
glucose
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A reasonable course is to measure the blood glucose of all patients when they present with infarction.
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Of these six hormones, insulin is the only one that decreases the blood glucose level.
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A nonlinear relationship was observed between coronary heart and stroke mortality with the two hour postprandial blood glucose .
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Regular exercise may also help to control blood glucose .
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Diabetics and those with postprandial blood glucose levels between 5.4-11.
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Insulin therapy is started if blood glucose levels remain elevated despite following these measures.
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Ideally, the diagnosis should be confirmed before treatment, and this can be done with capillary blood glucose test sticks.
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Most studies have found no increase in fetal mortality when blood glucose levels are controlled in this way.
group
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Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris, 1987.
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The first thing he saw was her blood group .
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Thirty five healthy subjects with different blood groups were also included in the study.
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And three of them needed A-Negative, Faye's blood group .
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Few traits reach the extreme of a heritability of one, although blood groups in humans are an example.
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Is blood group an inherited characteristic?
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One of the more scientific attempts to discover their origins was an investigation of their blood group .
loss
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Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract.
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Peptic ulceration may cause chronic gastrointestinal blood loss as well as an acute bleed.
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If blood loss during operation has been excessive, previously cross-matched blood will be transfused.
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Efficient emergency treatment relies upon being able to stem the blood loss with a tourniquet around the foot.
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The deep cuts had missed the major blood vessels and nerves in his neck, but had caused considerable blood loss .
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The results are expressed as mean daily blood loss .
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The upper limit of normal for gastrointestinal blood loss is less than 1.0 ml/day.
pressure
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Between 1945 and 1956, many research findings identified other factors which affected the blood pressure .
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Prevents or delays high blood pressure , and reduces blood pressure in people with hypertension. 7.
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Changes in blood pressure and activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system may contribute to these different effects.
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High blood pressure means the heart is straining to pump blood.
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Somatostatin is known to reduce splanchnic blood flow without modifying systemic arterial blood pressure .
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The study also found that garlic supplements reduced blood pressure modestly, confirming results from previous studies.
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If a doctor treats a patient with high blood pressure he records blood pressure levels before, during and after treatment.
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That diet lowered their blood pressure as much as a typical blood-pressure-lowering medication would.
product
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The vaccine does not contain any blood products .
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The hepatitis B virus may be stable in dried blood and blood products at room temperature for up to seven days.
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The second subcategory of blood-to-blood contact is transmission by receipt of contaminated blood transfusions or of contaminated blood products .
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Hospitals reportedly are postponing chemotherapy treatments because of limited supplies of blood products .
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A revolution in the use of blood transfusions and blood products .
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Through infected blood and blood products entering the bloodstream.
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Now that we know how to prepare safe blood products to aid clotting, this is unlikely to happen.
sample
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One blood sample was taken before endoscopy and the patients then had a colonoscopy to the caecum.
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A membrane selectively permeable to gases separates the buffer from the blood sample .
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Beside it was a test-tube holder with a series of blood samples .
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There too men are being asked to give blood samples .
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It does not even include the taking of a blood sample .
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So far 650 blood samples have been taken.
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The police took blood samples from just about every male in the vicinity.
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Next she's going to ask me to produce a blood sample .
sugar
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All carbohydrates, sugars and starches are converted into blood sugar.
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Circulating glucose remains in the blood , leading to a rise in blood sugar .
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Jonathan had been taken to hospital and his blood sugar level had been found to be abnormally low.
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Without insulin, blood sugar can not move into cells.
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This just produces a swift blood sugar surge which rapidly declines - a solid breakfast which releases energy slowly is far better.
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When you eat a big load of sugar , your blood sugar levels rise.
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To provide this energy, stores of blood sugar and fats are metabolized.
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You use insulin to store the excess sugar away until your blood sugar levels drop.
supply
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It is not, in fact, the heart itself that tends to fail, but its blood supply .
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Teeth usually become less sensitive as their nerve and blood supply decreases.
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It also increases uterine blood supply and tone, relaxes the cervix and brings the goat into oestrus.
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There are at least a dozen other restrictions aimed at preserving blood supply safety.
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In Raynaud's disease, the blood supply to the fingers is faulty, leading to attacks of numbness and discomfort.
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The blood supply in major Western countries is now safer than it has ever been.
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Other organs, although vital in their own way, can not survive without a blood supply rich in oxygen and nutrients.
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Reduced blood supply prevents healing, leading to infections and the development of ulcers.
test
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They may include blood tests , X-rays or scans.
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The famous Wassermann diagnostic blood test for syphilis has been used for forty years.
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The parents face a nightmare week-long wait before blood tests show if there has been a hospital blunder.
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Anyways, when Belinda died, she asked me to take a blood test .
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She must have recently had a blood test .
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A blood test can be used to find out whether a person's blood contains antibodies to the virus.
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Returning for the blood test results is worth $ 10.
transfusion
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Every 3 weeks her baby needs a blood transfusion .
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Treatments, including dialysis and blood transfusion , failed, and Rash died of heart failure.
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During an effort to overcome one of those problems - a heart defect - surgeons gave the boy a blood transfusion .
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Thyroidectomy was performed without problem or need for blood transfusion .
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Both groups received a similar volume of blood transfusion .
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Shortly afterwards Miss T. told the midwife that she did not want a blood transfusion .
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I was to have a blood transfusion before he could operate.
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Remember - one day you may owe your life to a blood transfusion .
transfusions
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Some people need blood transfusions as part of ordinary medical treatment for all kinds of illnesses.
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The second subcategory of blood-to-blood contact is transmission by receipt of contaminated blood transfusions or of contaminated blood products.
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Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity.
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A revolution in the use of blood transfusions and blood products.
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Filtered blood is widely used to treat recurrent non-haemolytic febrile reactions in patients who depend on regular blood transfusions .
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Although a new and growing field in medicine, placental blood transfusions have proved effective in combating leukemia and other cancers.
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Treatment consisted in giving blood transfusions over a number of hours.
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He spent three years in and out of hospitals and received more than three hundred blood transfusions .
vessel
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But an inquest heard that the rupture in the blood vessel was not caused by the operation.
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Just as in a bruise under the skin, a blood vessel in the brain can leak.
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Its bite produces a worm which swells up the blood vessels , causing ulcers and, in the worst cases, blindness.
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One-quarter of this extracellular fluid is contained within blood vessels as the plasma space.
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Most acted directly on the blood vessels .
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Everything in me is congealing-guts, glands, blood vessels , organs, bones.
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He was well beaten and in a later race broke a blood vessel .
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Doctors first thought it reduced blood pressure by relaxing the blood vessels , Rubin said.
■ VERB
check
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It is customary to check patients' blood coagulation before ERCp and correct any detected abnormality.
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Doctors can easily check blood levels of B-12 and folic acid, he says.
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It's a good idea to ask your doctor to check your blood pressure each visit.
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We had a veterinarian call and tell us to check Marcus' blood pressure.
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And as well as a physical examination, your vet will want to check urine and blood samples.
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We have actors in trauma here. Check their blood gases.
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Additional reasons for checking the blood pressure are marked retinopathy or any evidence of proteinuria.
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The cost of blood testing strips used by diabetics to check their blood sugar also would be paid by Medicare.
donate
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Since 1998, white blood cells have been removed from donated blood.
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Another theory for her longevity: that the person who donated the tainted blood may have been relatively healthy, Wara said.
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Each person who volunteers to donate blood goes through several screening steps before getting stuck with a needle.
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Oh yeah, and he donates blood to the Red Cross.
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Each is paid $ 40 to give an hourlong interview and donate two vials of blood .
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Persons who have engaged in homosexual activities or have shot street drugs within the last 10 years should never donate blood .
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Blood transfusions would transmit syphilis, except that blood-screening programs test all donated blood for evidence of the disease.
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Risk of HIV-transmission through donated blood: 1 in 450, 000-660, 000.
draw
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Blood banks must balance hospitals' need for blood with the need to draw blood only from healthy, relatively risk-free volunteers.
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It was vicious, and it drew blood .
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It should be exercised so hard, so incessantly, that it swells in effort and draws all your blood !
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It was the Kings who drew early blood racing into an eight two lead.
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As a Manila barrio streetfighter, he had drawn more blood than Dracula in a year of Halloween nights.
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They vary from superficial scratches to full-thickness lacerations, but almost invariably draw blood .
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He set immediately to work cutting and eating the chop, drawing the blood away from his brain.
lose
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The bullet was deep in my arm, and I lost a lot of blood .
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He had lost blood profusely and had collapsed.
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Under the rock, he could feel himself losing a lot of blood .
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He had lost a lot of blood and was lapsing in and out of consciousness.
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Having lost several pints of blood due to a nasal haemorrhage, he was much too weak to continue.
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Some vertebrates, including ourselves, lose water from the blood .
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He's lost a lot of blood .
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He lost four pints of blood and required 17 stitches.
shed
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Suppose his hand slipped, suppose he were to shed Marcus's blood ?
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Only the simpler, uglier land mine has shed more blood .
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Atone for death by death. Shed blood for old blood shed.
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They visited with terrible punishment those who shed the blood of kin did.
spill
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You do not spill blood on your own carpet.
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A number of the men feared the spilled blood , but the rest of the men laughed at them.
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She had not spilled his blood before.
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The execution chair was designed with splatter guards to capture spilled blood .
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One time they spill the blood .
stain
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The blanket slipped from his shoulders, disclosing the white T-shirt, its front stained soaked - with blood .
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He had a couple of hundred dollars on top of the dashboard, folded in butcher wrap stained with lamb-chop blood .
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By the time he had pulled the corpse out into the street, Valenzuela's clothes were stained with blood .
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She will not have her altar stained with human blood .
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They were stained with her blood and with the pallid cream of Stephen's semen.
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We were given clothes of hers that were stained with blood .
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His chest is suddenly stained with blood as something pulses frantically beneath his thin shirt.
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The priest's cassock was stained with vomit and blood .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bad blood
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There'd been some bad blood between Jose and Arriola over a woman.
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But bad blood between the two had developed years before that.
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But referee Ed Morrison's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge.
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It will be great theater because there is truly bad blood between the camps of supporters.
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Probyn recognises that whenever there is money about, then the potential for bad blood creeping in is always there.
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There had been bad blood between Laurie and Lisa for months.
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There is bad blood between the options market's leading dealing firms and the stock exchange.
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There was bad blood between Uncle Hal and Uncle Charlie.
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Was this not deft proof of how the human gene-pool was constantly deteriorating, how bad blood drove out good?
blood rushes to sb's face/cheeks
blood/sperm/organ bank
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But where had his Glover genes come from if his father was in a sperm bank ?
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Fertility clinics and sperm banks in the United States often are privately run and are subject to few government restrictions.
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In 1987, the agency had directed blood banks to similarly disqualify donors who have received pituitary-derived growth hormone.
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In person, however, they have matured about as much as a sperm in a deep frozen sperm bank .
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Still, there was always food here at the blood bank as well as plenty of sweetened fluids to quickly restore energy.
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The chief donors to sperm banks were medical students.
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The World Around Us Fascinating topics for young learners ranging from blood banks to deserts.
draw blood
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Another cause related to blood-drawing is hemolysis of drawn blood.
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Blood banks must balance hospitals' need for blood with the need to draw blood only from healthy, relatively risk-free volunteers.
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He carried on ripping and tearing at his legs relentlessly and with sickening ferocity, even drawing blood at times.
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He wanted to feel his fist bruise flesh, smash bone, draw blood.
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Lee has stepped over zonked-out bodies to draw blood for syphilis tests.
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They would draw blood or take little pieces of meat as you pulled them off, and it would burn like fire.
make your blood curdle
new blood
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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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Every election brings a supply of new blood to the legislature.
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They seem to be expecting everyone over 50 to step aside and make way for new blood.
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After that, a simple change to a new blood pressure medication solved the problem for good.
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If the underlying cause persists, however, then a suffocating blanket of activated lymphocytes surrounds every new blood vessel.
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It got some new blood in here.
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The new blood testing exercise will cost up to five thousand pounds.
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The system has resulted in new blood coming into the television industry.
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The Treasury, where two ministers were election casualties, receives an infusion of new blood.
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Then our heart rate climbs, steadily, until our ears are gulping on the new blood.
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They give you new blood plasma.
pool of water/blood/light etc
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A pool of light, expanding circles, merging, dragging me down.
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A guard found him lying in a pool of blood, and a doctor saved him.
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After they are replaced, the spent fuel rods are cooled for several years in pools of water at the plants.
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His black telephone sat captive in a pool of light, ready for interrogation.
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She leaves the coach and wanders through fields for many miles until between trees she sees a deep black pool of water.
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The kind of pool of light depends on whether the bulb fitted inside is a spot, flood or an ordinary bulb.
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Then on the fifth day, mid-morning, a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon.
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There was a pool of blood on the tarmac now, around his head.
sb's blood freezes
shed blood
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Too much blood has already been shed in this conflict.
spill blood
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A number of the men feared the spilled blood, but the rest of the men laughed at them.
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Internal haemorrhaging spills blood into the stomach, and this causes a telltale black vomit.
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People throw bricks, fight cops, disrupt Sunday services in churches, and spill blood all over the floor.
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The execution chair was designed with splatter guards to capture spilled blood.
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You do not spill blood on your own carpet.
spout of water/blood etc
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They were racing here and there, and when wave tops collided, throwing up great spouts of water.
the colour/blood drains from sb's face/cheeks
your own flesh and blood
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He raised those kids like they were his own flesh and blood.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She lost a lot of blood in the accident.
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There's French blood on his mother's side.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Businesses that clean up blood and guts at accident scenes must register with the state.
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During the procedure pulse rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation were recorded every minute by the research nurse.
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I remember it as if I were still standing there, streaked with blood and dust and tears, talking to her.
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In Raynaud's disease, the blood supply to the fingers is faulty, leading to attacks of numbness and discomfort.
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Now there are ways of making sure that infected blood isn't used in transfusions.
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The plant it was made from sprang up first when Prometheus' blood dripped down upon the earth.
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The temporary rise in blood pressure increases the oxygen requirements and creates an extra burden on the heart.
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Urine analysis, a red blood cell count, and blood pressure were also routinely recorded.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bad blood
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There'd been some bad blood between Jose and Arriola over a woman.
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But bad blood between the two had developed years before that.
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But referee Ed Morrison's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge.
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It will be great theater because there is truly bad blood between the camps of supporters.
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Probyn recognises that whenever there is money about, then the potential for bad blood creeping in is always there.
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There had been bad blood between Laurie and Lisa for months.
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There is bad blood between the options market's leading dealing firms and the stock exchange.
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There was bad blood between Uncle Hal and Uncle Charlie.
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Was this not deft proof of how the human gene-pool was constantly deteriorating, how bad blood drove out good?
blood/sperm/organ bank
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But where had his Glover genes come from if his father was in a sperm bank ?
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Fertility clinics and sperm banks in the United States often are privately run and are subject to few government restrictions.
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In 1987, the agency had directed blood banks to similarly disqualify donors who have received pituitary-derived growth hormone.
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In person, however, they have matured about as much as a sperm in a deep frozen sperm bank .
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Still, there was always food here at the blood bank as well as plenty of sweetened fluids to quickly restore energy.
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The chief donors to sperm banks were medical students.
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The World Around Us Fascinating topics for young learners ranging from blood banks to deserts.
new blood
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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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Every election brings a supply of new blood to the legislature.
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They seem to be expecting everyone over 50 to step aside and make way for new blood.
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After that, a simple change to a new blood pressure medication solved the problem for good.
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If the underlying cause persists, however, then a suffocating blanket of activated lymphocytes surrounds every new blood vessel.
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It got some new blood in here.
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The new blood testing exercise will cost up to five thousand pounds.
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The system has resulted in new blood coming into the television industry.
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The Treasury, where two ministers were election casualties, receives an infusion of new blood.
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Then our heart rate climbs, steadily, until our ears are gulping on the new blood.
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They give you new blood plasma.
pool of water/blood/light etc
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A pool of light, expanding circles, merging, dragging me down.
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A guard found him lying in a pool of blood, and a doctor saved him.
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After they are replaced, the spent fuel rods are cooled for several years in pools of water at the plants.
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His black telephone sat captive in a pool of light, ready for interrogation.
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She leaves the coach and wanders through fields for many miles until between trees she sees a deep black pool of water.
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The kind of pool of light depends on whether the bulb fitted inside is a spot, flood or an ordinary bulb.
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Then on the fifth day, mid-morning, a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon.
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There was a pool of blood on the tarmac now, around his head.
spout of water/blood etc
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They were racing here and there, and when wave tops collided, throwing up great spouts of water.
your own flesh and blood
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He raised those kids like they were his own flesh and blood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For I am writing this on Saturday evening, and already I have been blooded.
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He has had a feverish complaint and has been blooded.
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In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded.
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It was too long to go without being blooded.
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Look how he blooded Speed and Batty ... he didnt chuck them in and hope for the best.