bloodstream
pronunciation
How to pronounce bloodstream in British English:
UK [ˈblʌdstri:m]
How to pronounce bloodstream in American English:
US [ˈblʌdˌstrim]
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- Noun:
- the blood flowing through the circulatory system
Word Origin
- bloodstream (n.)
- also blood-stream, 1847, from blood (n.) + stream (n.).
Example
- 1. Because oral bacteria enter the bloodstream and travel throughout the body .
- 2. They breathe in air , then extract the oxygen and pass it into the bloodstream , where it 's rushed off to the tissues and organs that require it to function .
- 3. Although that mops up hiv from the bloodstream , the virus then passes from the red blood cells to the white immune-system cells most susceptible to infection .
- 4. Swiss pharma house novartis thinks pills needn 't merely deliver medicine to the bloodstream , but could also monitor its effects and transmit data to physicians .
- 5. While asleep , suffers may stop breathing for between 10 to 25 seconds at a time , depleting the bloodstream and brain of vital oxygen supplies .