Blood : nm (word from latin bloody, Sanguinis, another form of sanguis, Sanguinis “blood”, “vital force” and “race, kinship”).
The word “blood” has many meanings:
I) Liquide organic :
1. Liquide viscous, color Red, which circulates in the vessels, through allorganisme du human body and with animals vertebrates, where he plays roles essentials and multiple (nutritive, respiratory, regulatory, defense, etc.) (circulation; -emia, hema-, hemat(o)-, hemo-).
Blood circulation.
Arterial, venous blood, which circulates in the arteries and veins.
Blood is made up ofitems so-called “figured” cells (red blood cells, white blood cells or leukocytes, platelets) suspended in plasma which contains various substances (serum-albumins, serum-globulins, lipids, glucose, urea, creatine, mineral elements).
Blood content of lipids (lipidemia), phosphorus (phosphoremia), carbohydrates (glycemia).
Blood hemoglobin. Blood tension in the vessels.
Blood types (blood group); rhesus.
Blood coagulation (clot, fibrin, serum).
Blood test; blood test (hemogram).
Blood donor.
Blood transfusion.
Contaminated blood.
Lacquered blood: solution of hemoglobin obtained by adding distilled water to blood cells red separated from blood by centrifugation.
Aged sense: Warm-blooded animals (at stable temperature: homeotherms), cold-blooded animals (at variable temperature: poikilotherms).
Alterations, blood diseases (anemia, hemoglobinopathy, hemolysis, hemophilia, leukemia, septicemia, toxemia, uremia).
Blood circulation disorders (apoplexy, congestion, embolism, inflammation, thrombosis).
Effusion, flow of blood (ecchymosis, hemorrhage, purpura, bleeding).
Coughing up blood (haematemesis, haemoptysis).
Having blood in the urine (hematuria).
Menstrual blood (meaning: aged menstruation), periods.
Blood loss (metrorrhagia).
Feeding on blood (hematophagous; vampire).
2. Kitchen : Use Case du blood byanimal en Food : The Liaison to the blood is very used about stews, stews de game, volaille (Coq Au Vin) Et les preparations « royal " or " smeared ».
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3. Common expressions: Blood rising to the head, face.
My blood boiled: I was upset (indignation, fear, etc.).
A supply of new blood, frais, new, young elements; especially new capital invested (Silver frais).
Stroke blood: congestion.
French writer quote Émile Zola (1840-1902): “Abbot Godard turned red, to make people fear a stroke of blood.”
Figurative meaning: Violent manifestation of anger.
To have, take, get a bloody stroke.
Eye bloodshot.
Sweat blood and water.
Tears of blood.
Colloquial: Piss blood: bleed profusely.
A deep gash that draws blood.
To have lost a lot of blood (exsanguine).
Bathe in his blood.
Scratching, biting, pinching until they bleed.
To be bloody, bloodied (to bleed; bloody).
4. Old medical term: Blood:mood who orders the passions, The behaviour.
Quote from the French writer François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680): “All passions are nothing other than the varying degrees of heat and coldness of the blood”.
5. See also: Blood under Argot de Bouche.
II) Symbolic uses:
A. Symbols of life :
Principle of life, in the living being. Beings of flesh and blood, very real, very alive, with their passions, their appetites.
Common meaning: To be hot-blooded: to be irascible, impetuous.
Have blood in your veins: be courageous, resolute.
Fam. To have turnip blood: to be without vigor, to be cowardly.
Whip the blood: stimulate. Blood-curdling fear.
Blood that freezes, freezes in the veins.
To worry: to worry, to torment oneself in uncertainty and waiting (to worry).
To be scared to death: to worry terribly (worry, worry).
In the plural (colloquial): To fret: to worry and become extremely impatient. Turn blood (to someone).
In the blood: innate, inherent to the person, by nature, birth.
He has that (a habit, a taste, a quality) in his blood, deeply rooted.
– Quote from the French writer and poet Charles Pierre Péguy (1873-1914): “He had freedom in his skin; in the marrow and in the blood.
B. Blood versed , symbol violence.
Verser, spread, make flow the blood (kill).
Bloodshed.
A bloodbath (carnage, massacre).
It will end in blood.
Drown a revolt in blood, repress it cruelly.
Blood crime. To have blood on your hands: to have committed crimes.
Set ablaze: to ravage, to sack by burning, by massacring.
“Let impure blood water our furrows! » stanza from the French national anthem “La Marseillaise”.
Quote from the French playwright and poet Pierre Corneille (1606-1784): “It is only in blood that such an outrage is washed away.”
Verser his blood for the homeland, to give his life.
– Quote from the French writer André Malraux (1901-1976): “There is no more blood in the most violent gangster novel than in Oresteia or in Oedipus the King; but blood does not have the same meaning.”
Christian religion: The blood of Christchurch, the Precious Blood, shed for the salvation of the world.
“He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me” parable according to the Gospel, Saint John.
By the blood of God !, an attenuated swear word “by blue blood” (palsambleu) attributed to the French playwright and actor Molière (1622-1673).
Modern meaning: damn it! Good evening!
– Quote from the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918): “What is he putting in the coconut? Damn it, he got drunk”.
C. Symbols of kinship:
1. Blood, traditionally considered to carry racial and hereditary characteristics (heredity).
– Quote from the French writer Jacques Lacarrière (1925-2005): “This dictatorial power attributed to “blood” and to what it conveys in notions and cultural potions”.
Blood law (opposed to blood law Salt).
Brothers of the same blood.
– Quote from the French playwright, poet, essayist and diplomat, member of the French Academy Paul Claudel (1868-1955): “I am not your sister, you are not of our blood! ".
Have Greek, Turkish blood.
Of blood mixed up : mixed blood : No one issue of the union of races different and Private of races white and black (metis).
Blood Blue ; blood noble.
Un character of royal blood.
Princes of the blood.
Links blood (kinship; consanguineous).
The voice of blood: family emotional instinct.
Horses thoroughbred (thoroughbred).
A bà ª te of blood, of race.
Proverb: Good blood cannot, cannot lie: the qualities of the parents (or ironically their faults) are found in the children.
– Quote from the poet Paul Éluard (1895-1952): “The awful knot of snakes of blood ties”.
– Quote from the French writer Anatole France (1844-1824): “His father went for a walk, trusting in his son, because he believed that good blood could not lie.”
2. Old or literary meaning: The in family considered in its lineage.
The children, the descendants.
– Quote from the French playwright and poet Pierre Corneille (1606-1784): “Come, my son, come, my blood, come and repair my shame”.