Blood Plasma (Noun)
Meaning
The colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The nurse carefully extracted the patient's blood and separated the blood plasma from the other components.
- Blood plasma makes up about 55% of the total blood volume in the human body.
- During the blood donation process, the blood plasma is often separated from the other blood components and frozen for later use.
- The medical researcher studied the properties of blood plasma to gain a better understanding of its role in the human circulatory system.
- The hospital's blood bank stocks a large supply of frozen blood plasma from volunteer donors.