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bloodstream Definition

blood·stream (-strēm′)

noun

the blood flowing through the circulatory system of a body

bloodstream Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • enter: The extra speed with which sucrose enters the bloodstream does more harm than good.
  • reach: The bioavailability ( how much of the supplement actually reaches the bloodstream ) needs to be worked out through clinical trials.
  • invade: This bacteria can also cause blood poisoning ( septicaemia ) if it invades the bloodstream.
  • cleanse: The soldier had died following an operation to insert a stent into an artery, a device designed to cleanse the bloodstream of cholesterol.

Preposition: within

  • minute: Alcohol is absorbed into the system directly from the stomach and it is in the bloodstream within 5 minutes.

Preposition: into

  • tissue: They are small enough to pass out of the bloodstream into the tissues.
  • cell: A hormone called insulin helps to take glucose from the bloodstream into various cells of the body.

Adjective modifier

  • human: In order to cause the disease, the single-celled parasite must multiply in the human bloodstream.

Modifies a noun

  • infection: Approximately 7,000 patients suffer bloodstream infections due to MRSA each year in England.
  • form: Expression of a novel, rapidly evolving gene family in the bloodstream form of a pathogenic African trypanosome.
  • trypanosome: The bloodstream form trypanosome is therefore continuously balancing on the brink of destruction.
  • rate: While the monitoring of MRSA bloodstream infection rates is now compulsory, this is in fact a poor indicator of MRSA infection rates overall.

Possessives

  • baby: Try not to smoke as nicotine will pass into your baby's bloodstream.
  • mother: Drugs can affect an unborn baby through the mother's bloodstream.
  • patient: The machine rotates quickly around the head of the patient, taking X-ray images whilst a dye is put into the patient's bloodstream.
  • person: It does this by entering the other person's bloodstream, for example through an open cut or wound.

Preposition: of

  • host: From here they may enter the bloodstream of a new host, thus completing the parasites lifecycle.
  • mouse: They have created a modified cold virus that stays in the bloodstream of mice for longer, delivering genes to the right cells.
  • patient: LINES Intravenous lines give drugs directly into the bloodstream of the patient.

Preposition: from

  • lining: The nicotine released from chewing Nicorette gum is absorbed into the bloodstream from the lining of your mouth.