blood substitute

collocation in English

meaningsofbloodandsubstitute

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blood
noun[U]
uk
/blʌd/us
/blʌd/
the red liquid that is sent around the body by the heart, and carries oxygen and important substances to organs and tissue, and removes ...
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substitute
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsʌb.stɪ.tʃuːt/us
/ˈsʌb.stə.tuːt/
a thing or person that is used instead of another thing ...
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(Definition ofbloodandsubstitutefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Every overseas theatre is supplied from this country with a stock of preservedbloodsubstitute.
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It's not worth bothering to order thebloodsubstitute.
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A vampiric corporation sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching abloodsubstitute.
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If successful, such abloodsubstitutecould save many lives, particularly in trauma where massive blood loss results.
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Researchers hope that dendrimer technology will be the first truly cost-efficientbloodsubstitute.
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Despite their technology being great enough to create abloodsubstituteas food, they still prefer to feed on humans.
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The termbloodsubstituteis a misnomer.
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There is additional longer range research on true artificial red and white blood cells which could theoretically compose abloodsubstitutewith higher fidelity to human blood.
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Wampyr derived their superhuman abilities from a genetically engineeredbloodsubstitutethat made them faster and stronger than any ordinary human.
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Some of these components are substitutable with modern technology, and may, at least, be added to an oxygen-carryingbloodsubstituteto create a more completebloodsubstitute.
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This is the most widely studied of the haemoglobin-based blood substitutes, used in more than a dozen animal and clinical studies.
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According to this simplified postulation, early attempts to develop blood substitutes was focused on simple cell-free solution of haemoglobin.
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At this point the blood substitutes, blood products, hetastarch based colloids, albumin and hypertonic solutions have all been shown to have significant complications.
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Blood transfusion is the only approved fluid replacement capable of carrying oxygen; some oxygen-carrying blood substitutes are under development.
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Volume expanders could conceptually be called blood substitutes as well, but they are usually not within the scope of blood substitutes.
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The initial goal of oxygen carrying blood substitutes is merely to mimic blood's oxygen transport capacity.
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He also experimented with different methods of preserving blood and blood substitutes.
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Perfluorodecalin has been demonstrated as a blood substitutes, transporting oxygen to the lungs.
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