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
  • 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