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blood
The circulating tissue of the body, including plasma & cellular elements (erythrocytes, leukocytes & platelets). Blood circulates through the heart, lungs, arteries, arterioles & capillaries & returns to the heart via venules & veins.
Blood functions to:
1) deliver oxygen (via hemoglobin with erythrocytes) & nutrients to the tissues
2) remove CO2 & other waste products from tissues for excretion
3) deliver circulating leukocytes to sites of infection &/or injury
Related
blood banking (transfusion medicine)
blood donation
blood group locus
blood products
blood transfusion
blood volume
buffy coat
complete blood count (CBC)
erythrocyte; red blood cell (RBC)
hematologic disease (blood disorder, blood dyscrasia)
hemoccult
plasma
platelet
white blood cell count (WBC with WBC differential)
Specific
arterial blood
cord blood
dried blood spot (DBS)
venous blood
General
body fluid
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995