BLOODSTREAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bloodstream mean? 

• BLOODSTREAM (noun)
  The noun BLOODSTREAM has 1 sense:

1. the blood flowing through the circulatory system

  Familiarity information: BLOODSTREAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOODSTREAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The blood flowing through the circulatory system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

blood stream; bloodstream

Hypernyms ("bloodstream" 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 ("bloodstream" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

Germs from a gum infection can enter your bloodstream.

(Endocarditis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

A drug used to treat certain bacterial skin and bloodstream infections in adults.

(Cubicin, NCI Dictionary)

Refers to tissue that makes and releases hormones that travel in the bloodstream and control the actions of other cells or organs.

(Endocrine, NCI Dictionary)

They travel through your bloodstream to tissues or organs.

(Endocrine Diseases, NIH)

Endocrine Secretory Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, hormone release into the bloodstream from endocrine glands.

(Endocrine Secretory Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

A pancreatic cell that produces hormones (e.g., insulin and glucagon) that are secreted into the bloodstream.

(Endocrine pancreas cell, NCI Dictionary)

Upon intravenous administration, colloidal gold-bound recombinant human TNF travels through the bloodstream, avoiding immune detection and uptake by the reticuloendothelial system because of nanoparticle pegylation.

(Colloidal gold-bound tumor necrosis factor, NCI Thesaurus)

CA 19-9 is a tumor marker released into the bloodstream from both cancer cells and normal cells.

(Cancer Antigen 19-9 Measurement, NCI Dictionary)

When a mosquito infected with malaria parasites bites someone, it transfers the parasites into their bloodstream via its saliva.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)

If a blood clot in a deep vein breaks off and travels through the bloodstream to the lungs and blocks blood flow, the condition is called pulmonary embolism.

(Blood Clots, NIH)