bloodstream

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.