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BLOOD STREAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The blood flowing through the circulatory system
Synonyms:
blood stream; bloodstream
Classified under:
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:
While it prevents saturated fatty acids from accumulating in the liver, it also promotes the excretion of fatty acids from the liver into the blood stream.
(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Both tests detect and measure levels of sugars produced by pancreatic cancer cells that subsequently escape into the blood stream.
(New Approach to Pancreatic Cancer Screening May Help Catch Disease Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
When the researchers injected pDox-containing silicon particles intravenously into mice with cancerous tumors, the particles traveled through the blood stream and accumulated at the site of tumors, where blood vessels are leakier.
(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)
At low plasma concentration this agent is filtered by the glomeruli and almost completely cleared from the renal blood stream by active tubular secretion in a single transit through the kidney.
(Aminohippurate Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)
A rapidly progressing cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue such as the bone marrow, and causes large numbers of white blood cells to be produced and enter the blood stream.
(Acute leukemia, NCI Dictionary)
Important in lipid transport, especially cholesterol transport in the blood stream.
(Lipoprotein, NCI Thesaurus)
A respiratory organ found in aquatic animals that allows for the exchange of dissolved oxygen from water into the blood stream.
(Gill, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon administration of gp96-Ig-secreting allogeneic tumor cell vaccine HS110, the irradiated live tumor cells continuously secrete gp96-Ig along with its chaperoned tumor associated antigens (TAAs) into the blood stream, thereby activating antigen presenting cells, natural killer cells and priming potent cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) to respond against TAAs on the endogenous tumor cells.
(Gp96-Ig-secreting Allogeneic Tumor-Cell Vaccine HS110, NCI Thesaurus)
Leukocyte Trafficking Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint 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 Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)
