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The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

The part of the mesoblast which gives rise to the connective tissues and blood.

and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either c…

able crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains.

One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anæmia.

A minute bloodsucking fly. [Local, U. S.]

sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvæ and pupæ, called wigglers, are aquatic. [Written also musquito.] Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curta…

To wear the customary garb of a mourner. We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood Shak. Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year. Pope.

Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward." Shak. -- Mur"der*ous*ly, adv.

or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.

rn; a birthmark; -- usually applied to vascular tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

ly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

ces, etc.; closely allied; intimate. "Nigh kinsmen." Knolles. Ye ... are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Eph. ii. 13.

The quality or state of being nigh. [R.] "Nighness of blood." Holished.

r inherited or conferred. I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda. Dryden.

nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.

goes." Shak. What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood! T. Baker. Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator.

ction; as, a poet of note. There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold. Prescott.

ly; as, I will write now. I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot.