Blood

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.

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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

• • formation of cells
    • bone marrow
  • red blood cells
    • oxygen carrying pigments - Hemoglobin, cyanoglobin
      • mutations in these pigments - thalassemia, sickle cell anemia

• • • 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]
    • Hemophilia

• blood transfusion
  • Landsteiner & blood groups
  • Rhesus factor
  • Hepatitis

Cultural aspects

• `Blood brother'
• `The blood is the life'
  • Vampire
• 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