Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
In vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells suspended in a liquid called blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains dissipated proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma ...
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- Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. ,
- The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears. ,
- The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. ,
- Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. ,
- A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. ,
- Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ,
- No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
