| bloodletting |
formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) bloodbath: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered"
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| bloodshot |
(of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed; "bloodshot eyes"
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| bloodstream |
the blood flowing through the circulatory system
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| bloodless |
destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup" without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless young man" devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators" ashen: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
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| blood gas analysis |
the determination of oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations and pressures with the pH of the blood by laboratory tests; the following measurements may be made: PO 2 , partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood; PCO 2 , partial pressure of carbon dioxide in arterial blood; SO 2 , percent saturation of hemoglobin with oxygen in arterial blood; the total CO 2 content of (venous) plasma; and the pH.
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