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Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix
Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix is a 1997 remix album by Michael Jackson, mixing five new songs with eight remixes of his 1995 HIStory album.
Blood on the Moon
Blood on the Moon (1948) is a Robert Wise RKO Western starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Preston, adapted from a Luke Short novel and celebrated as the leading example of the noir Western hybrid.
Blood on the Risers
"Blood on the Risers" is an unofficial U.S. Army Airborne folk song, sung to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," telling of a rookie paratrooper's fatal parachute failure.
Blood on the Tracks
Blood on the Tracks is Bob Dylan's fifteenth studio album, released January 20, 1975 on Columbia; recorded in New York, five songs re-recorded in Minneapolis at Sound 80 with six uncredited Minnesota musicians.
Blood on the Tracks (manga)
Blood on the Tracks (Chi no Wadachi, 血の轍) is Shuzo Oshimi's seinen psychological horror manga, serialized in Big Comic Superior 2017–2023, complete in 17 volumes and 153 chapters, about middle schooler Seiichi Osabe and his possessive mother Seiko.
Blood orange
The blood orange, also called red orange, is a sweet orange variety with red flesh from anthocyanin pigments, grown in Sicily since the fifteenth century.
Blood Order
Blood Order (Blutorden, Ehrenzeichen vom 9. November 1923), the NSDAP's highest party decoration, instituted 1934 for Munich Putsch participants; about 4,000 awarded, silver 800, Feldherrnhalle reverse, prohibited in Germany today.
Blood parrot cichlid
Blood parrot cichlid (血鹦鹉), a man-made hybrid cichlid created in Taiwan around 1986, most often from Midas cichlid × redhead cichlid; beaked mouth deformity, males mostly infertile, 8 inches, 10-15 years.
Blood phobia
Blood phobia, or blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia, is a specific phobia of seeing blood, injections, and injury, marked by vasovagal fainting, roughly 3-4% adult prevalence, early childhood onset, and exposure plus applied tension treatment.
Blood plasma
Blood plasma: straw-colored liquid component of blood, ~55% of blood volume, 91–92% water, albumin and IgG dominant proteins; distinct from serum (no fibrinogen); transfused as FFP and fractionated into albumin, IVIG, and clotting factors.
Blood Pledge Corps Incident
The Blood Pledge Corps Incident (血盟団事件, Ketsumeidan jiken) was a series of 1932 Tokyo assassinations by the ultranationalist Ketsumeidan, led by Inoue Nisshō, who killed former finance minister Inoue Junnosuke and Mitsui chief Dan Takuma.
Blood Preservation
Blood preservation is the practice of keeping donated blood and its components viable outside the body through chemicals, refrigeration, and storage solutions, forming the core of blood banking.
Blood pressure
Blood pressure is the force of blood against artery walls, reported as systolic/diastolic in mm Hg; normal is under 120/80, high at 130/80 or above, measured by cuff methods and confirmed with ambulatory or home monitoring.
Blood pressure measurement
Blood pressure determination is noninvasive measurement of systolic and diastolic arterial pressure in mm Hg, by auscultatory Korotkoff sounds or validated oscillometric cuff devices, in office, home, and ambulatory settings.
Blood pressure monitoring
Blood pressure monitoring: repeated arterial BP measurement in office, home (HBPM), and 24-hour ambulatory (ABPM) settings to detect and manage hypertension, from Hales's 1733 equine experiment to validated oscillometric cuffs and not-yet-clinically-ready cuffless wearables.
Blood purification
Blood purification: extracorporeal therapies (hemodialysis, hemofiltration, apheresis, hemoperfusion, immunoadsorption) that remove toxins and pathogens from blood; also the Karger nephrology journal Blood Purification, ISSN 0253-5068, founded 1983.
Blood Quantum (film)
Blood Quantum is Jeff Barnaby's 2019 Canadian Mi'kmaq zombie horror film, also called a decolonial zombie movie, in which Indigenous residents of the Red Crow reserve are immune to a zombie plague; it premiered at TIFF 2019 and streams on Shudder and AMC+.
Blood quantum laws
Blood quantum laws define Native American identity and tribal enrollment by documented fraction of "Indian blood." Rooted in the 1887 Dawes Act allotment era; BIA benchmark one-fourth; about 70% of tribes use them.
Blood Rage (board game)
Blood Rage is a 2015 Viking-themed board game by Eric M. Lang, published by CMON/Guillotine Games after a $905,682 Kickstarter. Card drafting plus area control over three Ages; dying scores Glory. Not the video game or the Flesh and Blood TCG.
Blood Rain (혈의 누)
Blood Rain (혈의 누, Hyeol-ui Nu) is a 2005 South Korean period thriller directed by Kim Dai-seung, set in 1808 Joseon on the paper-making island Donghwado, where investigator Won-kyu (Cha Seung-won) probes murders blamed on an executed Catholic's curse; it won the 2006 Baeksang Best Film award.
Blood Red Sky
Blood Red Sky is a 2021 German-British action horror film directed by Peter Thorwarth, starring Peri Baumeister, Dominic Purcell, and Roland Møller, released on Netflix in July 2021.
Blood River (暗河传) (TV series)
Blood River (暗河传, Tales of Dark River) is a 2025 Chinese wuxia drama adapted from Zhou Munan's novel, directed by Yin Tao, starring Gong Jun as assassin Su Muyu; 38 episodes on Youku from October 20, 2025, Douban 7.1.
Blood Safety
Blood safety: layered system protecting transfusion recipients via donor screening, testing for HIV, hepatitis B/C, syphilis, pathogen reduction, hemovigilance (SHOT, 1996), and WHO global blood system standards.
Blood sausage
Blood sausage, also called black pudding (boudin noir, morcilla, Blutwurst), is a cooked sausage of animal blood, fat, and grain or onion fillers, documented since Homer's Odyssey and eaten worldwide.
Blood Simple
Blood Simple is the 1984 neo-noir debut feature of Joel and Ethan Coen, set in Texas, starring Frances McDormand, John Getz, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh; made for about $1.5 million, it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and opened in New York on January 18, 1985.
Blood Sisters
Blood Sisters is a 2022 four-part Nigerian crime thriller limited series, Netflix's first Nigerian Original, created by Temidayo Makanjuola and produced by EbonyLife's Mo Abudu; Sarah and Kemi go on the run after a groom disappears.
Blood smear
A blood smear is a test in which a thin layer of blood is spread on a slide, stained, and examined microscopically to evaluate blood cells and detect parasites.
Blood Specimen Collection
Blood specimen collection, usually called phlebotomy, is the drawing of a blood sample to assess its overall character or measure its cells, chemicals, or gases in the laboratory.
Blood sport
Blood sport: entertainment involving killing or injuring animals, including bullfighting, cockfighting, dogfighting, and hunting; divided into human-versus-human, human-versus-animal, and animal-versus-animal forms, increasingly banned by law.
Blood Star
Blood Star (2024) is a British-American independent desert road thriller, Lawrence Jacomelli's feature debut, starring Britni Camacho and John Schwab. Shot in New Mexico in ten days from a 70-minute animatic; premiered at NIFFF 2024; distributed by PLAION and Quiver.