BLOOD STREAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood stream mean? 

• BLOOD STREAM (noun)
  The noun BLOOD STREAM has 1 sense:

1. the blood flowing through the circulatory system

  Familiarity information: BLOOD STREAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD STREAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The blood flowing through the circulatory system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

blood stream; bloodstream

Hypernyms ("blood stream" is a kind of...):

blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets)

Holonyms ("blood stream" is a part of...):

cardiovascular system; circulatory system (the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body)

 Context examples 

An increase in the concentration of blood cells resulting from the loss of plasma or water from the blood stream.

(Hemoconcentration, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute form of TUBERCULOSIS in which minute tubercles are formed in a number of organs of the body due to dissemination of the bacilli through the blood stream.

(Miliary Tuberculosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Some of these proteins enter the blood stream by purposeful secretion to orchestrate biological processes in health or in disease, for example hormones, cytokines and growth factors.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)

Laromustine releases the DNA chloroethylating agent 90CE after entering the blood stream; 90CE chloroethylates alkylates the O6 position of guanine, resulting in DNA crosslinking, strand breaks, chromosomal aberrations, and disruption of DNA synthesis.

(Laromustine, NCI Thesaurus)

The circulation of white blood cells from the blood stream to tissues or secondary lymphoid organs, to the lymphatics, and back to the bloodstream via the thoracic duct.

(Leukocyte Trafficking, NCI Thesaurus)

Chemokines can recruit leukocytes or lymphocytes out of the blood stream into tissues and make blood vessels more permeable.

(Local Acute Inflammatory Response Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Leukocyte Trafficking Induction involves initiation of circulation of white blood cells from the blood stream to tissues or secondary lymphoid organs, to the lymphatics, and back to the bloodstream via the thoracic duct.

(Leukocyte Trafficking Induction, NCI Thesaurus)

The fluid which runs through a dialysis machine and captures, for discard or analysis, the excess water and waste from the blood stream through diffusion and ultrafiltration.

(Dialysis Fluid, NCI Thesaurus)

A slowly progressing cancer that starts in blood-forming tissues such as the bone marrow, and causes large numbers of white blood cells to be produced and enter the blood stream.

(Chronic leukemia, NCI Dictionary)

While the highest plastic concentrations in animal studies have been found in the gut, the smallest microplastic particles are capable of entering the blood stream, lymphatic system and may even reach the liver.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)