blood
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Ischemic heart disease occurs when reduced blood flow deprives the heart muscle of the oxygen it needs, often because arteries have narrowed or become blocked.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
That volume is approximately equal to the amount of blood circulating in an adult human body.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
It also contributes to the normal functioning of blood vessel walls, which plays an important role in maintaining healthy blood pressure.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Insulin injections can help reduce blood sugar by allowing muscle cells to absorb glucose from the bloodstream.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
As soon as he’d said it, his blood froze, worried that he’d gone too far, for it had been a very long while since he’d made a joke.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Years ago, I was talking to my cousin—also English—about how one could find the Premiership compelling when only a small handful of upper-crust blue bloods ever have a shot at winning.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
"We want it to be made mandatory that when someone arrives at the mortuary then bloods should be taken," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
The country’s top teams—blue bloods with well-resourced athletic departments and rich histories of March triumph—have never been better.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Where there were concerns in the past about USC having enough resources to compete with other blue bloods, Bowden says he has no such worry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
Now came the suitors, young bloods trooping in to their own seats on thrones or easy chairs.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Toxoplasma gondii is a potentially dangerous parasite that infects warm blooded animals.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
Some deep-sea fish, such as tuna and lamnid sharks, a family of large and speedy sharks, are partially warm blooded; they can divert body heat to specific organs even in icy temps.
From Science Magazine ● May 10, 2023
“Because they’re cold blooded animals, they regulate their body temperature as best they can based on the environment,” he said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
Species of warm- blooded animals, for example, tend to have larger bodies in the cooler climates closer to the earth’s poles, allowing them to better conserve heat.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
To Estha—steeped in the smell of old roses, blooded on memories of a broken man—the fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Seen by many as an inconvenience in an already congested calendar, the EFL Cup remains essential when it comes to blooding emerging Premier League talent.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
Phelan is now faced with the tricky task of blooding new recruits without upsetting the players who have served him so well thus far.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016
But he says Rodgers has been "brave" for blooding the likes of Raheem Sterling and Andre Wisdom.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2013
And for this match at the Kennington Oval, a desperate England were blooding eight new internationals, including a 17-year-old whelp, James Prinsep.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2011
They were relieved that night, this short spell being designed as a sort of introduction or breaking in or blooding to the game.
From Between the Lines by Boyd Cable
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