单词 | blood-borne |
释义 | > as lemmasblood-borne blood-borne adj. carried in the blood; caused or transmitted by an agent present in blood; cf. waterborne adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > agent or medium > transmitted by waterborne1873 blood-borne1885 food-borne1898 louse-borne1919 tick-borne1921 vector-borne1956 1885 W. H. Dickinson On Renal & Urin. Affect. iii. xviii. 1067 The probably constant arrest of the blood-borne ova in the liver..explains the position of the lung with regard to the distribution of hydatid tumors. 1916 Kentucky Med. Jrnl. 14 69/1 We have good reasons for believing that all acute infectious diseases are micro-organismal if not bacterial in origin, and that they are blood-borne diseases. 1991 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 27 Oct. h2/3 She was infected with malarial blood, which she was told had been tested for AIDS, hepatitis and other blood-borne diseases. 2004 Gay Times Feb. 64/2 He..has never come across anyone who caught a blood-borne virus such as HIV—or Hepatitis C, which is far more common and infectious—through an aerial act. < as lemmas |
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