Blood
Appearance
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
- formation of cells
- red blood cells
- oxygen carrying pigments - Hemoglobin, cyanoglobin
- mutations in these pigments - thalassemia, sickle cell anemia
- oxygen carrying pigments - Hemoglobin, cyanoglobin
- anemia and vitamin B12
- platelets
- Immunology
- diseases of blood cells
- parasites - malaria
- AIDS
- leukemia
- Hodgkins disease
- Burkitts lymphoma
- blood proteins
- Albumin
- Thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG)
- [[clotting factors]
- blood transfusion
- Landsteiner & blood groups
- Rhesus factor
- Hepatitis
Cultural aspects
- `Blood brother'
- `The blood is the life'
- Kosher
- Jehovahs Witnesses' interpretation of the dietary laws as applied to blood tranfusions
- `blood is thicker than water'
- `bad blood'
- blood as one of the four bodily humours in Renaissance medicine