单词 | blood-giving |
释义 | blood-givingn. The action or practice of giving or donating blood; = blood donation n. at blood n. Compounds 5. In quot. 1874: the action or fact of carrying out a blood transfusion. ΚΠ 1874 tr. F. Gesellius in Philadelphia Med. Times 10 Oct. 24/1 Lamb's-blood transfusion will inaugurate in medicine a new era,—the era of blood-giving. [Ger. Die Lammblut-Transfusion wird in der Medicin eine neue Aera—die blutspendende—inauguriren!] 1943 Billboard 20 Mar. 3/4 Radio, which has been plugging Red Cross donations and blood giving for a long time, is right on top of the ball for the official drive. 1996 C. K. Wilber in C. J. Whalen Polit. Econ. for 21st Cent. iii. 57 The motivation for blood giving is reduced and reformulated in the form of a utility function. 2009 Daily Mail (Hull) (Nexis) 26 Oct. 40 A new campaign has been launched by NHS Blood and Transplant, urging people to attend blood-giving sessions and to take a friend with them. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blood-givingadj. 1. That stimulates blood production; vivifying, animating. Now rare.With quot. 1840 cf. blood n. 12. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > [adjective] life-giving1550 vivific1551 vivificative1575 vivificant1576 vital1590 informing1631 vivifical1632 vivifying1635 informative1642 animantative1655 enlivening1664 vivificatinga1688 animative1706 vitalizing1813 blood-giving1840 1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles I. 278 Other feelings, strengthened by the blood-giving energies of youth, came to his aid. 1886 Med. Rec. 25 Dec. 5 (advt.) It tones the system, aids digestion, is full of nutritious and blood-giving properties. 1909 T. B. Keyes Renewal of Life iii. 54 These effects are produced by the non-assimilation or assimilation comparatively or completely of the dynamic power, force and blood-giving foods. 1997 K. A. Senah Money be Man vii. 159 These are classified as blood-giving medicines or tonics. 2. That gives or donates one's blood. Cf. to give (also donate) blood at blood n. Phrases 1m. ΚΠ 1877 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 Mar. 384/1 The blood-giving patient having declared his inability to give more blood,..we were unwillingly compelled again to disconnect the whole apparatus. 1913 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Med. Feb. 164/2 The serum from the blood-giving animal contains not a trace of the poison which might in some way produce active immunity in the second (the receiving) animal also. 2010 Edinb. News (Nexis) 23 Dec. Tributes have been paid to a blood-giving Bonnyrigg granddad whose 100 donations have saved and improved 300 lives. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1874adj.1840 |
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