Blood

Blood

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.

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Famous quotes containing the word blood:

    Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.
    Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    Her skin was white as leprosy,
    The nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
    Who thicks man’s blood with cold.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:7.