blood

     

Bloo is a specialized bodily fluid (technically a tissue).

Trivia about blood

  • Of blood, sweat or tears, the one that's not a product of an exocrine gland
  • The red on the flag stands for this spilled by the patriots
  • Galen's neighbors heard the squeals of stuck pigs when he proved that veins carry this, not air
  • Both the male & female tsetse fly drink this; only the female mosquito & horsefly do
  • Male mosquitos usually feed on nectar; it's the female mosquitos who usually feed on this substance
  • A finger stick is done to draw this
  • In the 1600s William Harvey dissected Sir Froggie to write "On the Motion of the Heart and" this substance
  • Medically speaking, hemo-, hema- & hemato- all mean this
  • The first of the 10 Biblical plagues of Egypt occurred when the waters of the Nile were turned into this
  • Jesus said in John 6:55, "For my flesh is meat indeed, and" this "is drink indeed"
  • In chapter 7 of Exodus, God turns the waters of the Nile into this
  • A person who's hemophobic can't stand the sight of this
  • In addition to carrying nutrients, this fluid transports oxygen to your body's cells
  • Fleas make up the order Siphonaptera, siphon meaning tube used to extract this
  • Hemophilia is a hereditary condition in which this coagulates extremely slowly
  • While Bella finds the smell of this nauseating, to the vampires, it's intoxicating
  • Guinness reports that sharks can detect 1 part of this in 100 million parts of water
  • Hemophobia
  • 90% of Argentina's supply of this comes from people donating to members of their own families
  • The hypothalamus monitors your body temperature by using the temperature of this fluid as a control
  • To keep the correct water level in your tissues, osmoceptors monitor this as it travels thru the brain
  • It fills the entire cavity of an insect's body but does not carry oxygen to the cells
  • Galen said this was produced in the liver & ebbed & flowed like the tide in the body; Harvey proved that was absurd
  • In the medical field, you can be a phlebotomist & draw a salary for drawing this
  • You have about 1 quart of this for every 30 pounds you weigh
  • Until exposed as a fake, the Spanish statue seen here reportedly cried tears of this
  • Reacting to hemoglobin, the chemical Luminol is used to detect this, even if it's been wiped off
  • The prefixes hem-, haem-, haemo- & hemo- all refer to this
  • Peter quotes Joel, who said "that before the final day, the sun will turn dark and the moon will turn into" this
  • ER techs need to know if this is type B or O
  • Type of "oath" you might take to be a Mafioso in good standing, or what you might then be asked to spill
  • In 1937 the first large-scale bank for this substance was established in Chicago
  • There Will Be ___ Diamond
  • The Greeks thought a man's body had 4 humors: phlegm, yellow bile, black bile & this fluid
  • Kiss members donated this body fluid to be used in the ink dyes of the Kiss comic books
  • Army doctor Benjamin Rush believed in the "depletion" of this, sometimes removing 80% of it from a patient
  • Army doctor Benjamin Rush believed in the "depletion" of this, sometimes removing 80% of it from a patient
  • Serology is the study of this body fluid closely resembling sea water
  • Hydrogen peroxide can help with this, the only stain that gets its own single word in the Random House Dictionary
  • In some societies this type of "feud" is settled by paying this type of "money"
  • A hemoglobinometer measures the amount of hemoglobin in this
  • Used as a suffix, -emia means pertaining to this substance
  • Coroner's verdict: the accident led to exsanguination, death by a complete loss of this
  • Attempts to get money from the mill owner are in vain; "you can't get" this "out of a stone"
  • To ward off predators, the horned lizard will squirt this out of its eyes