blood plasma
the plasma or liquid portion of human blood.
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It’s well known that repeated exposure to heat triggers a series of physiological changes like enhanced sweating and increased blood plasma volume that make us better at dealing with hot conditions.
How Your Body Does (and Doesn't) Adapt to Cold | Alex Hutchinson | February 10, 2021 | Outside OnlineShe donated blood plasma twice, hoping to aid others who become infected.
900,000 infected. Nearly 15,000 dead. How the coronavirus tore through D.C., Maryland and Virginia. | Rebecca Tan, Antonio Olivo, John D. Harden | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostMost notably, the Conboy Laboratory at UC Berkeley has shown that molecules circulating in the blood plasma of elderly humans and mice make our tissues display signs of age.
Cracking the code of biological aging could solve America’s health care crisis | matthewheimer | December 30, 2020 | FortuneWith this added immediate support from a survivor’s blood plasma—known as high-antibody-titer convalescent plasma—many patients report improvement in a few days.
COVID vaccines won’t come fast enough to save struggling businesses. But plasma might | jakemeth | November 23, 2020 | FortuneSteadman and other blood plasma workers feared a new level of risk as donors came in from the street and attested that they had been symptom-free for 14 days.
Foreign Masks, Fear and a Fake Certification: Staff at CSL Plasma Say Conditions at Donation Centers Aren’t Safe | by J. David McSwane | September 21, 2020 | ProPublica
Lymph, then, is practically blood plasma plus some colorless corpuscles.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterAll nose lotions should be alkaline, and isotonic with the blood plasma.
There are many insects which likewise possess a poisonous blood plasma.
Handbook of Medical Entomology | William Albert RileyThey live in the blood-plasma and do not attack the corpuscles.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe blood-corpuscles are large amoebiform cells, and the blood-plasma is coloured blue by haemocyanin.
British Dictionary definitions for blood plasma
the pale yellow fluid portion of the blood; blood from which red and white blood cells and platelets have been removed
a sterilized preparation of this fluid for use in transfusions
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Scientific definitions for blood plasma
The clear, liquid part of the blood, composed mainly of water and proteins, in which the blood cells are suspended. The blood plasma of mammals also contains platelets.
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