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Blood gas testing
Blood gas testing, also called blood gas analysis, is a laboratory test measuring blood pH, carbon dioxide, and oxygen to assess ventilation, oxygenation, and acid–base status.
Blood Glacier
Blood Glacier (Blutgletscher) is a 2013 Austrian eco-horror film by Marvin Kren, also titled The Station, in which microorganisms from a melting glacier mutate Alpine wildlife into hybrid monsters; premiered at TIFF 2013, Metascore 45.
Blood glucose monitoring
Blood glucose monitoring is the measurement of glucose in blood or interstitial fluid, using laboratory tests, fingerstick meters, and continuous glucose monitors to guide diabetes diagnosis and insulin dosing.
Blood Hive
Blood Hive is episode 5 of Yellowjackets season 1, aired December 12, 2021 on Showtime. Written by Ameni Rozsa, directed by Eva Sørhaug, originally titled Blood Sugar Sex Magic; features the séance where Lottie is possessed.
Blood Hunt (comics)
Blood Hunt is a 2024 Marvel Comics crossover event by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz in which eternal night falls and vampires led by Varnae and the Bloodcoven conquer Earth; a five-issue series with many tie-ins, inspiring a Marvel Rivals season.
Blood In Blood Out
Blood In Blood Out (Bound by Honor) is Taylor Hackford's 1993, 180-minute crime drama about three East Los Angeles cousins, Miklo, Paco, and Cruz, whose lives split between the Vatos Locos gang, San Quentin prison, art, and the police; a box-office failure that became a Latino cult classic.
Blood in stool
Blood in stool (rectal bleeding, hematochezia, melena): visible GI bleeding from hemorrhoids, fissures, diverticula, polyps, IBD, or colorectal cancer; color and pattern hint at the bleeding source.
Blood in the Water match
Blood in the Water match (melbourne-i vérfürdő): violent 1956 Melbourne Olympic water polo semi-final, Hungary beat USSR 4-0; ended early after Valentin Prokopov punched Ervin Zádor, drawing blood.
Blood irradiation
Blood irradiation is a transfusion procedure that uses ionizing radiation. It inactivates donor T lymphocytes to prevent TA-GVHD, which has a fatality rate greater than 90%.
Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water: an English proverb (Chinese 血浓于水, Korean 피는 물보다 진하다) meaning family ties outrank other bonds; first in English print as "Blude's thicker than water" (Ramsay, 1737), popularized by Scott's Guy Mannering (1815); the covenant "reversal" is a modern invention.
Blood islands
Blood islands are discrete clusters of cells forming in the extraembryonic mesoderm of the yolk sac, serving as the vertebrate embryo's first site of blood and blood vessel formation.
Blood Lad (ブラッドラッド)
Blood Lad (ブラッドラッド) is a completed vampire action-comedy manga by Yuuki Kodama, serialized in Young Ace 2009-2016 in 17 volumes, about the otaku vampire Staz reviving the ghost girl Fuyumi; adapted into a 2013 Brains Base TV anime and published in English by Yen Press.
Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys
Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys is a 2014 Animal Planet TV movie by The Asylum, directed by James Cullen Bressack, starring Shannen Doherty and Christopher Lloyd as a mayor killed by lampreys.
Blood Legacy (TV series)
Blood Legacy is a South African Netflix drama (2024–), a remake of Mexico's Monarca, following Khanyi Adesina and her siblings' battle for Spear Industries after their father's murder in KwaZulu-Natal; two 20-episode seasons, Gambit Films.
Blood libel
Blood libel, also called the blood accusation, is the false accusation that Jews murdered Christians, usually children, to use their blood in rituals such as making matzah.
Blood lymphocyte
Blood lymphocyte: a lymphocyte located in blood (Cell Ontology CL:4030029), comprising T, B, and NK cells; only part of the pool recirculates through lymphoid tissue, and flow cytometry quantifies subsets clinically.
Blood meal
Blood meal (dried slaughterhouse blood, CAS 90989-74-5) is a hemoglobin-rich powder with 10–13% organic nitrogen, used as an organic fertilizer, animal repellent, and livestock feed, and approved as an EU low-risk pesticide substance to 2036.
Blood meal analysis
Blood meal analysis is a set of cytological, serological, and DNA-based techniques for identifying the vertebrate host a mosquito or other blood-feeding arthropod has fed on.
Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West, is Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel following the kid and the historical Glanton scalp-hunting gang in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, drawing on Samuel Chamberlain's memoir My Confession and regarded as McCarthy's magnum opus.
Blood Message
Blood Message is an upcoming NetEase/24 Entertainment AAA single-player action-adventure set in 848 AD Tang China, following messenger Pei Changguan and his son Ning on a 1,000-mile journey to Chang'an during the Shazhou uprising.
Blood Money (Breaking Bad)
"Blood Money" is the ninth episode of Breaking Bad season 5, the series' 55th episode, aired August 11, 2013 on AMC. Written by Peter Gould, directed by Bryan Cranston; it opened the final eight episodes, drew 5.92 million viewers, and ends with Walt's "tread lightly" warning to Hank.
Blood moon prophecy
The blood moon prophecy is the belief, taught by pastors Mark Biltz and John Hagee, that four total lunar eclipses on Jewish festivals portend a major event for Israel.
Blood of Christ
Blood of Christ, also called the Precious Blood, names in Christian usage the blood Jesus shed at his Passion and the consecrated wine, which Catholic doctrine holds has become that blood.
Blood of Elves
Blood of Elves (Krew elfów) is Andrzej Sapkowski's 1994 fantasy novel, the first full-length Witcher Saga novel following The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny, following Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer amid human-elf conflict.
Blood of My Blood
"Blood of My Blood" is the sixth episode of season 6 of Game of Thrones, written by Bryan Cogman and first aired on May 29, 2016.
Blood of Your Empire
Blood of Your Empire is the 2026 debut album by masked UK metal band PRESIDENT, released via Atlantic on September 4. Ten tracks, 37 minutes, blending metalcore, EDM and R&B, exploring lost faith; successor to the King of Terrors EP.
Blood of Zeus
Blood of Zeus is a Netflix adult animated series by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides about Heron, son of Zeus; three seasons, 2020-2025, Powerhouse Animation, formerly titled Gods & Heroes.
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996) is a top-down action-adventure RPG by Silicon Knights, published by Crystal Dynamics, launching the Legacy of Kain series. Vampire Kain hunts the Circle of Nine across Nosgoth, feeding on blood; re-released 2024 on PS Plus, Evercade, and GOG.
Blood on Snow (film)
Blood on Snow is a 2027 crime thriller directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, adapted from Jo Nesbø's novel, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Eva Green, and Benedict Cumberbatch as a 1970s Oslo hitman who defies an order to kill his boss's wife; a Sky Original UK release.
Blood on the Dance Floor (band)
Blood on the Dance Floor is an American electronic music group formed in Orlando, Florida, in 2006. The longest lineup featured Dahvie Vanity and Jayy Von Monroe.