| whole blood | |
| —n | |
| blood obtained from a donor for transfusion from which none of the elements has been removed | |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
whole blood n.
Blood from which no constituent such as plasma or platelets has been removed.
| whole blood (hōl) Pronunciation Key
Blood from which no constituent, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, or platelets, has been removed. Whole blood is commonly obtained through blood donation and can be transfused directly or broken down into blood components that can be transfused separately. |