CORD BLOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cord blood mean? 

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

1. blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORD BLOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cord blood" 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)

 Context examples 

For patients who receive cord blood, the average time to neutrophil engraftment is between 21 and 35 days.

(Neutrophil Engraftment, NCI Thesaurus)

An umbilical cord blood product that has been expanded ex vivo and can be used during single umbilical cord blood transplantation.

(Expanded Umbilical Cord Blood Product HSC835, NCI Thesaurus)

See Umbilical cord blood stem cells.

(Cord blood stem cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For patients who receive cord blood, it may be 8 weeks or longer after transplant before platelet engraftment occurs.

(Platelet Engraftment, NCI Thesaurus)

A proprietary system for recovery of stem-cell rich fractions from human umbilical cord blood and volume reduction of blood components.

(AXP AutoXpress Platform, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, ImuVert is capable of inducing peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), from the cord blood of newborn infants lacking NK activity, to exhibit NK activity.

(ImuVert, NCI Thesaurus)

Autologous hematopoietic CD34+ cells are isolated from the patient’s own bone marrow, peripheral blood or cord blood, and transduced with the EFS-ADA lentiviral vector ex vivo.

(EFS-ADA Lentiviral Vector-transduced CD34-positive Autologous Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

An organization based in Leiden, Netherlands that coordinates the collection of HLA phenotypes from volunteer stem cell donors and cord blood donors, and is responsible for coordination of their distribution worldwide.

(Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide, NCI Thesaurus)

They collected umbilical cord blood from 996 births and measured the amount of acetaminophen and two of its byproducts in each sample.

(Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism, National Institutes of Health)