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This is just a stub article of topics that I think belong under this heading - or move it to hematology if that seems more sensible.

Move the headings around and add more - whatever makes more sense. I'm not a haematologist.


Blood is the common term used for the fluid in the circulatory system of animals, that is used to distribute oxygen and nutrients to the cells of the body.


Biology

  • blood cells

Blood Types

Cultural aspects

  • `Blood brother'
  • `The blood is the life'
  • Kosher
  • `blood is thicker than water'
  • `bad blood'
  • blood as one of the four bodily humours in Renaissance medicine