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Blood vessel   /bləd vˈɛsəl/   Listen
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Blood  n.  
1.
The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial. Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma.
2.
Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. "To share the blood of Saxon royalty." "A friend of our own blood."
Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent.
Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood.
3.
Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. "Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam." "I am a gentleman of blood and breeding."
4.
(Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood.
5.
The fleshy nature of man. "Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood."
6.
The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. "So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones."
7.
A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. (R.) "He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries."
8.
Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; as if the blood were the seat of emotions. "When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth." Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up.
9.
A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. "Seest thou not... how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?" "It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood."
10.
The juice of anything, especially if red. "He washed... his clothes in the blood of grapes." Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won.
Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism.
Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury.
Blood brother, brother by blood or birth.
Blood clam (Zool.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh.
Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle.
Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the haemoglobin of the red blood corpuscles; haematocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals.
Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 98½ ° Fahr.
Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
Blood money. See in the Vocabulary.
Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp.
Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; toxaemia.
Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent.
Blood spavin. See under Spavin.
Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary.
Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of blue; hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family.
Flesh and blood.
(a)
A blood relation, esp. a child.
(b)
Human nature.
In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor.
To let blood. See under Let.
Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal.


Blood vessel  n.  (Anat.) Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.





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"Blood vessel" Quotes from Famous Books



... question more to ask; but he put it with a faltering voice: "Where's your mother?" "Oh, she, too, died but a short time since; she broke a blood vessel in a fit of passion at a New England peddler." There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest man could contain himself no longer. He caught his daughter and her child in his arms. "I am your father!" cried he. "Young Rip Van Winkle once, old Rip Van Winkle now! ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... the skin, and this takes the form of small blood spots underneath the skin, (petechia) and spots like the bursting of a blood vessel shows vibices or ecchymoses. The first are in small minute points and appear, as a rule, in the hair follicles and unlike the erythemas (redness) do not disappear upon pressure. Another kind occurs as streaks, while the ecchymoses are larger, ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... heavy stick, which stood by his bedside, he knocked impatiently on the bare boarded floor, calling Mrs. Finch! Mrs. Finch! so loudly at the same time, that Valmai seriously feared he would burst a blood vessel. ...
— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine
... of the room is usually about 110 deg. Fahrenheit, but it may be more or less. It induces vigorous perspiration, and sets the blood glowing and tingling, but it never melts the flesh nor breaks the smallest blood vessel. The finishing touch is to ascend the platform near the ceiling and allow the servant to throw water upon hot stones from the furnace. There is always a cloud of steam filling the room and making objects indistinct. You easily become accustomed to the ordinary heat, but when water is dropped ...
— Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life • Thomas Wallace Knox
... my engagement. How simple, in the retrospect, is the frustration of our hopes! I had not been a week in town, had only danced once with my FIANCEE, when, one day, taking a tennis lesson from the great Barre, a forced ball grazed the frame of my racket, and broke a blood vessel ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... cause. Each cell has enough determinants in it for many individuals, and it seems to be more or less a matter of accident which qualities shall come out. It has been suggested that as an egg lies within the gland, a blood vessel may bring blood to it in such way that a determinant, lying in a certain position in the egg, may get the richest supply of blood, and hence develop at the expense of the less nourished determinant. By these two methods variation comes into an animal's life, if Weissman ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker
... to the effects of the food and wine. Pulling gaily along, he suddenly felt a tremendous pressure in his head, and apparently without the slightest cause, blood spurted from his mouth and nostrils. It occurred to him that he had burst a blood vessel. ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... your Pa has ruptured a blood vessel, eh," says the street car driver to the bad boy, as the youngster was playing sweet on him to get a ...
— Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa - 1883 • George W. Peck
... he strained, and writhed, and almost burst a blood vessel with his efforts. Thad stood and watched, his lip curling as though he could no longer be deceived. To him the whole thing was now very much in the nature of a fraud, a delusion, and a snare. He did not ...
— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson


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