Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). Medical terms related to blood often begin in hemo- or hemato- (BE: haemo- and haemato-) from the Greek word "haima" for "blood". The main function of blood is to supply nutrients (oxygen, glucose) and constitutional elements to tissues and to remove waste products (such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid). Blood also enables cells (leukocytes, abnormal tumor cells) and different su ...

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• Blood - Production and degradation
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• Blood - Transport of carbon dioxide
• Blood - Transport of hydrogen ions
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• Blood - Ancient medicine
• Blood - Diagnosis
• Blood - Pathology
• Blood - Treatment
• Blood - Mythology and religion
• Blood - Indo-European paganism
• Blood - Judaism
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• Blood - Jehovah's Witnesses
• Blood - Vampire legends
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Blood is composed of several kinds of corpuscles; these formed elements of the blood constitute about 45% of whole blood. The other 55% is blood plasma, a yellowish fluid that is the blood's liquid medium. The normal pH of human arterial blood is approximately 7.40. Blood is about 7% of the human body weight [1], so the average adult has a blood volume of about 5 liters, of which 2.7-3 liters is plasma. The combined surface area of all the erythrocytes in the human anatomy would be roughly 2,000 time ...

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Carmine is the general term for a particularly deep red color. Rubies are carmine. The name is often applied to descriptions of blood. See also. list of colors ...

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Bay is a color of the hair coats of horses, characterized by a body color of dark red (known as blood bay) to deep brown, with black points (mane, tail, lower legs, and sometimes the muzzle and tip of the ears). Bay is a favorite color among ranchers and horse enthusiasts, and is one of the most common coat colors in many horse breeds. Bay color - Genetics. For background, see equine coat color genetics. A bay horse carries both the extension gene (E) and the agouti gene (A). The exten ...

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The blood orange is a variety of orange with crimson blood-colored flesh. The fruit ranges from small- to medium-sized; its skin can be pitted or smooth. Blood oranges owe their distinctive appearance to a pigment called anthocyanin not typically found in citrus, but common in other red fruits and flowers. Not only is the inside of the orange darkly pigmented, but depending on the variety, the outside may feature dark washes of red. The exact reasons for the unusual inside color are unknown. However, it seems light, ...

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The Blood Pheasant, Ithaginis cruentus, is the only species in genus Ithaginis of the Pheasant family. It has 15 different subspecies. This species' name comes from the fact that the males have vivid red coloring on the feathers of the breast, throat and forehead. Females are more uniformly colored with duller shades of reddish brown. Both males and females have a distinct ring of bare skin around the eye that is crimson colored, in addition to red feet. Subspecies are det ...

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Crimson is a deep red color tinged with blue; however the name is also used for red colors in general. Traditionally, it is the color of blood. Etymology of the word "crimson" is from Sanskrit krmi-ja, a compound meaning "(red dye) produced by a worm", from krmih "worm" + -ja, "produced" (from Proto-Indo-European *gene-).[1] Crimson - Dyes. Alizarin crimson is a pigment that was first synthesized in 1868 by the German chemists Carl Gräbe and Carl Liebermann and re ...

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Cyanosis refers to the bluish coloration of the skin due to the presence of deoxygenated hemoglobin in blood vessels near the skin surface. Cyanosis - Types. It can occur in the fingers, including underneath the fingernails, as well as other extremities (called peripheral cyanosis), or in the lips and face (central cyanosis). Cyanosis - Central cyanosis. Central cyanosis suggests a circulatory or ventilatory problem that leads to poorer blood oxygenation in ...

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Jaundice, also known as icterus (adjective:"Icteric"), is yellowing of the skin, sclera (the white of the eyes) and mucous membranes caused by increased levels of bilirubin in the human body. Usually the concentration of bilirubin in the blood must exceed 2–3mg/dL for the coloration to be easily visible. Jaundice comes from the French word jaune, meaning yellow. Jaundice - Causes of jaundice. When red blood cells die, the heme in their hemoglobin is converted to bilirubin in the splee ...

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• Jaundice - Pre-hepatic
• Jaundice - Hepatic
• Jaundice - Post-hepatic
• Jaundice - Neonatal jaundice
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Chromatophores are pigment cells found in amphibians, fish, reptiles and cephalopods. Chromatophore - Classification. Chromforo was first used to describe invertebrate pigment cells in 1819 and the term chromatophore (Greek: khrōma = "color", phoros = "bearing") later adopted as a name for the pigment bearing cells of cold blooded vertebrates and cephalopods (in contrast to the chromato-cytes found in mammals and birds). By the 1960s, enough information about the s ...

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• Chromatophore - Xanthophores and erythrophores
• Chromatophore - Iridophores and leucophores
• Chromatophore - Melanophores
• Chromatophore - Cyanophores
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Aponeuroses (απο, away, and νευρον, a sinew) are membranes separating muscles from each other. They have a shiny, whitish-silvery color, and are histologically similar to tendons, but are very sparingly supplied with blood vessels and nerves. When dissected, aponeuroses are papery, and peel off by sections. The primary regions with thick aponeurosis is in the ventral abdominal region, the dorsal lumbar region, and in the palmar region. Aponeurosis - Ventral Abdominal Aponeuroses. The Ventral Abdomi ...

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The urethral sponge is a spongy cushion of tissue, found in the lower genital area of women, that sits against both the pubic bone and vaginal wall, and surrounds the urethra. The urethral sponge is composed of erectile tissue; during arousal, it becomes swollen with blood, compressing the urethra, helping prevent urination during sexual activity (along with the pubococcygeus muscle). Additionally, the urethral sponge contains the Skene's glands, which with continued stimulation, may produce an ejaculate (usually clear in color ...

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The Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) is a hummingbird, and the smallest of all birds (with the male being the smaller than the female of the species). It can be found in Cuba (where it is called the zunzún) and the Isle of Pines. Its mass is approximately 1.8 grams, and weighs less than a penny. Bee Hummingbird - Facts. The bee hummingbird is the world's smallest warm-blooded vertebrate. When flying, their wings beat 80 times per second, and when mating, up to 200 tim ...

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In medicine, gallstones (choleliths) are crystalline bodies formed within the body by accretion or concretion of normal or abnormal bile components. Cholesterol stones are usually green, but are sometimes white or yellow in color and account for about 80 percent of gallstones. They are made primarily of cholesterol. Pigment stones are small, dark stones made of bilirubin and calcium salts that are found in bile. They account for the other 20 percent of gallstones. Risk factors for pigment stones include cirrhosis, biliary tract infections, and hereditary blood cell disorders, such as sickle ...

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See also: 1984 in film, other events of 1985, 1986 in film, list of 'years in film'. 1985 in film - Events. 1985 in film - Top grossing films. Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, ...

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The Chinese White Dolphin (Chinese: 中華白海豚; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōnghuá bái hǎitún) (Sousa chinensis chinensis) is a subspecies of the Indo-Pacific Hump-backed Dolphin and is one of eighty cetacean species. The adult dolphin has a unique pink-coloured skin. The colour of the skin is not a result of colour pigmentation, but is actually from blood vessels used for thermoregulation to prevent overheating during exertion. The a ...

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• Chinese White Dolphin - Life expectancy
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• Chinese White Dolphin - Reproductive cycle
• Chinese White Dolphin - Population
• Chinese White Dolphin - Dolphin watching
• Chinese White Dolphin - Threats
• Chinese White Dolphin - Origin of a Cantonese slang
• Chinese White Dolphin - Timeline of main events

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Joel and Ethan Coen - Storyboarding. The Coen brothers storyboard their films completely before filming (unlike most directors, who only storyboard complex shots such as action sequences). They state that it helps them get the budget they want as they can show where most of the money will be going. Joel and Ethan Coen - Color correction. O Brother, Where Art Thou? was the first film fully color corrected from start to finish with digital techniques. The brothers wanted t ...

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The Bloods were formed when several members of the Pirus gang were being killed by the Crips. The Pirus then called on a meeting with other smaller gangs in Los Angeles, whose members were also being killed by the Crips, to form an alliance called the Bloods. Knowing that the Crips used the color blue to identify each other, the Bloods decided to use an opposing color, red, to identify each other.There has also been a set by the name of the Lime Stre ...

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The name "white cells" derives the from the fact that after centrifugation of a blood sample, the white cells are found in the Buffy coat, a small fraction between the hematocrit and the blood plasma, which is white in color (or sometimes green, if there are large amounts of neutrophils in the sample, which are high in green myeloperoxidase). Neutrophil granulocyte Eosinophil granulocyte Basop ...

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