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Blood brother
Blood brother: a person bound by a blood pact, a ritual exchange of blood creating an alliance between unrelated people. Known from Herodotus, African ethnography, and modern practice; classified as ritual kinship, with hepatitis transmission risk.
Blood Brothers (1973 film)
Blood Brothers (刺馬, Ci Ma) is a 1973 Shaw Brothers martial arts drama directed by Chang Cheh, starring Ti Lung, David Chiang, and Chen Kuan-tai, based on the Qing dynasty assassination of Ma Xinyi.
Blood Brothers (2025 film)
Blood Brothers (original title Blood Brothers: Bara Naga; English titles Fury of the Dragon, Dragon's Embers) is a 2025 Malaysian action crime thriller directed by Syafiq Yusof and Abhilash Chandra, released April 10, 2025, grossing MYR 73.64 million to top Malaysia's 2025 domestic box office.
Blood Brothers (musical)
Blood Brothers is a 1983 British musical by Willy Russell about Liverpool twins separated at birth across a class divide. It won the 1983 Olivier for Best New Musical, ran 24 years in the West End revival, and played 840 Broadway performances.
Blood Cancer Journal
Blood Cancer Journal is an online-only, open-access peer-reviewed medical journal launched in 2011 that publishes research on hematologic malignancies, including leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, and is published by Springer Nature.
Blood cell
Blood cell: red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets, the cellular elements of blood. Made in bone marrow from hematopoietic stem cells; red cells carry oxygen, white cells fight infection, platelets clot blood.
Blood Chemical Analysis
Blood Chemical Analysis: measurement of electrolytes, glucose, proteins, enzymes, and fats in blood, also called blood chemistry testing or metabolic panels (BMP, CMP), used to assess kidney, liver, and organ function and diagnose disease.
Blood chit
Blood chit: a notice carried by military aircrew bearing a flag, serial number, and multilingual promise of reward to anyone aiding a downed serviceman; used from WWI RAF "ransom notes" and Flying Tigers hu chao to modern Tyvek chits in Afghanistan under CJCSI 3270.01C.
Blood Coagulation Tests
Blood coagulation tests, chiefly prothrombin time, activated partial thromboplastin time, and thrombin time, measure plasma clotting times to screen coagulation disorders, monitor heparin and warfarin via INR, and guide mixing studies.
Blood Component Transfusion
Blood component transfusion is the transfer of blood components such as red cells, platelets, and plasma from donor to recipient, one of the most common procedures worldwide.
Blood Creek
Blood Creek (2009), originally titled Town Creek, is a Joel Schumacher horror film starring Henry Cavill, Dominic Purcell, and Michael Fassbender, about brothers confronting a Nazi occult experiment in West Virginia; distinct from a 2006 Canadian film of the same name.
Blood Cruise
Blood Cruise (Färjan) is a 2025 Swedish horror series directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby, which won the 2026 Creative Courage Award for its story of vampires on a ferry.
Blood culture
Blood culture: laboratory incubation of patient blood in aerobic and anaerobic broth bottles to detect bacteremia and fungemia; 20–30 mL per adult set, automated CO2 detection since the 1970s BACTEC era, still the reference standard over rapid molecular assays.
Blood diamond
Blood diamond (conflict diamond, war diamond): a rough diamond sold by rebel movements or their allies to finance wars against legitimate governments, notably in Angola, Sierra Leone, and Liberia; now under 0.1% of production per the Kimberley Process.
Blood Diamond
Blood Diamond is a 2006 American adventure drama directed by Edward Zwick, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou, set in Sierra Leone during its civil war in 1999.
Blood donation
Blood donation: voluntary collection of blood from healthy donors for transfusion. About 120.4 million donations yearly, over 85% voluntary unpaid; 450 mL per donation; risks include iron deficiency and vasovagal reactions.
Blood doping
Blood doping, also called blood boosting, is any WADA-banned technique or substance, such as transfusion or EPO, that increases oxygen-carrying red blood cells to improve endurance. It has been prohibited since 1985.
Blood Drive (TV series)
Blood Drive is a 2017 Syfy TV series, 13 episodes, created by James Roland, set in post-apocalyptic 1999 where a cross-country death race uses cars fueled by human blood; cancelled after one season.
Blood Dynasty
Blood Dynasty is the twelfth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, released March 28, 2025 on Century Media; produced by Jens Bogren, first album with guitarist Joey Concepcion, and the last with vocalist Alissa White-Gluz.
Blood eagle
The blood eagle (Old Norse blóðǫrn) was a ritual execution attributed to the Viking Age, in which ribs were broken and lungs pulled out to resemble wings.
Blood Falls
Blood Falls is a red, iron-rich hypersaline brine discharging episodically from the Taylor Glacier terminus into Lake Bonney, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Discovered by Griffith Taylor in 1911; its color comes from oxidizing iron nanospheres, and its ancient marine brine hosts microbes isolated for over a million years.
Blood Family Mafia
Blood Family Mafia (BFM), Quebec street gang led by Dave "Pic" Turmel; fought the Hells Angels from 2022 over drug taxes; Turmel arrested in Italy 2025; splintered into NSG and COD.
Blood Father
Blood Father (2016) is a Jean-François Richet action thriller starring Mel Gibson as ex-con John Link, protecting daughter Lydia (Erin Moriarty) from a cartel; based on Peter Craig's novel, Cannes 2016 Midnight Screening, 88 minutes.
Blood Feast
Blood Feast (1963) is Herschell Gordon Lewis's low-budget Miami horror film about caterer Fuad Ramses murdering women for the goddess Ishtar, widely regarded as the first splatter film and a drive-in hit despite scathing reviews.
Blood film
A blood film, or peripheral blood smear, is blood spread on a stained glass slide and examined under a microscope to assess blood cells and detect parasites.
Blood flow restriction training
Blood flow restriction training (BFRT, also called blood flow restriction exercise or KAATSU) applies an inflatable cuff to a limb during low-load exercise, producing muscle gains comparable to heavy lifting and making it valuable in rehabilitation.
Blood Flow Velocity
Blood flow velocity is the speed of blood in vessels (cm/s or m/s), measured mainly by Doppler ultrasound; flow = velocity × cross-sectional area. Key uses: stenosis grading, transcranial Doppler thresholds (vasospasm 180 cm/s, sickle cell 200 cm/s), angle-dependent errors.
BLOOD FOR BLOOD
Blood for Blood is an American hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1994, known for lyrics of alienation and street life on Victory Records.
Blood Free (지배종)
Blood Free (지배종, Jibaejong, Dominant Species) is a 2024 Disney+ South Korean sci-fi thriller, 10 episodes, written by Lee Soo-yeon, starring Han Hyo-joo as cultured-meat CEO Yun Ja-yoo and Ju Ji-hoon as bodyguard Woo Chae-woon.
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb is a 1971 Hammer horror film, also known as an adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars, directed by Seth Holt and completed by Michael Carreras after Holt's death, starring Andrew Keir and Valerie Leon as Margaret/Queen Tera.