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Fluids and Secretions > Body Fluids > Blood
Hemic and Immune Systems > Blood

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Blood  

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Note

  • general only as a substance: prefer / blood with higher animals, substances & diseases: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.10; not for hemodynamics: Manual 23.28, 23.29; reinfusion = BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; venous blood: coordinate BLOOD + VEINS or specific vein but do not index here for routine blood samples; arterial blood: coordinate BLOOD + ARTERIES or specific artery but only if the arterial aspect is significant; "blood picture" = probably BLOOD CELLS or BLOOD CELL COUNT; "blood clot": physiol clot or clotting = BLOOD COAGULATION, pathologic clot or clotting = THROMBOSIS or EMBOLISM

Scope note

  • The body fluid that circulates in the vascular system (BLOOD VESSELS). Whole blood includes PLASMA and BLOOD CELLS.

In other languages

  • veri

    Finnish

  • abscess (embolisk) (icke embolisk) hjärnan UNS
  • abscessus encephali embolicus
  • ekstraduraalinen granulooma
  • embolusperäinen aivojen märkäkertymä
  • embolusperäinen pikkuaivojen märkäkertymä
  • epiduraalinen märkäkertymä
  • granuloma intracraniale
  • granuloma subdurale
  • intrakraniell abscess och intrakraniellt granulom
  • kallonsisäinen märkäkertymä tai granulooma
  • sanguis
  • Blod

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001769

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