blood

(blud) [A.S. blod.] Sanguis, cruor; the red fluid circulating in the arteries, capillaries, and veins; it carries oxygen and reconstructive material to the ti ues and removes from them carbon dioxide and other waste products. The arterial blood is that which has been depurated in the lungs, is of a bright red color, and is found in the pulmonary veins, left side of the heart, and the arteries; the venous blood is that charged with waste material, it is of a dark red color, and circulates in the veins, right side of the heart, and pulmonary artery. The blood is a fluid, plasma, in which are numerous cells, the erythrocy es and leucocytes, the platelets, and the hemoconia. b.-cast, a urinary cast formed of coagulated blood, b.-cell, b.-corpuscle. b.-clot, coagulum. b.-cor'puscle, b.-cell, either a red cell, erythrocyte, or a white cell, leucocyte. b.-count, a count of the absolute and relative numbers of red and white cells in a given quantity of blood, b.-crys'tals, hematoid in crystals b.-cyst, hem a to cyst, hematoma, b.-disc, platelet b.-dust, hemoconia. b.-motes, hemoconia. b.- plaque, platelet, b.-plas'ma, the fluid portion of the blood as it is contained in the ve els; it differs from blood-serum chiefly in containing fibrinogen. b.-plas'tid, a red blood cell altered by the action _ of a, too concentrated salt solution, b.-plate, b.-plate'let, hematoblast, platelet.* b.-pois'oning, septicemia, pyemia, toxemia.* b.-pres's ure, the pre ure or tension of the blood within the arteries, maintained by