| blood | | |
| n. (body) | 1. blood | the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets.; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions" |
| ~ craniate, vertebrate | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium. |
| ~ bodily fluid, body fluid, liquid body substance, humour, humor | the liquid parts of the body. |
| ~ arterial blood | blood found in arteries.; "except for the pulmonary artery the arterial blood is rich in oxygen" |
| ~ blood group, blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens. |
| ~ gore | coagulated blood from a wound. |
| ~ lifeblood | the blood considered as the seat of vitality. |
| ~ blood stream, bloodstream | the blood flowing through the circulatory system. |
| ~ blood clot, grume | a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells. |
| ~ cord blood | blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth. |
| ~ menorrhea, menstrual blood, menstrual flow | flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years. |
| ~ venous blood | blood found in the veins.; "except in the pulmonary vein venous blood is rich in carbon dioxide and poor in oxygen" |
| ~ whole blood | blood that has not been modified except for the addition of an anticoagulant.; "whole blood is normally used in blood transfusions" |
| ~ blood serum, serum | an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates. |
| ~ blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle | either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. blood | temperament or disposition.; "a person of hot blood" |
| ~ disposition, temperament | your usual mood.; "he has a happy disposition" |
| n. (person) | 3. blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue | a dissolute man in fashionable society. |
| ~ debauchee, libertine, rounder | a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained. |
| n. (group) | 4. ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock | the descendants of one individual.; "his entire lineage has been warriors" |
| ~ family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, folk, family | people descended from a common ancestor.; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" |
| ~ side | a family line of descent.; "he gets his brains from his father's side" |
| ~ family tree, genealogy | successive generations of kin. |
| n. (group) | 5. blood | people viewed as members of a group.; "we need more young blood in this organization" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| v. (contact) | 6. blood | smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill. |
| ~ daub, smear | cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it.; "smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster" |
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