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单词 white blood
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white bloodn.

Brit. /ˌwʌɪt ˈblʌd/, U.S. /ˌ(h)waɪt ˈbləd/
Forms: see white adj. and n. and blood n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., blood n.
Etymology: < white adj. + blood n. In sense 4 after German Leukämie leukaemia n. (1848).
1. The blood of a menstruating woman (believed to be pale and cold). Obsolete.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iv. viii. 153 Miche blood in þe body brediþ wondir eueles in men but it be þe sonnere ivoyded by kinde oþir by phisik, as it fareþ in þe blood þat hatte sanguis menstrualis ‘þe white blood’.
1592 N. Gyer Eng. Phlebotomy xix. 203 By reason of frigiditie and coldnes of white bloud, they [sc. women] oftentimesvomit, and haue fluxe of tearmes.
2. Blood plasma or lymph (lymph n. 3), esp. when containing a large quantity of lipid. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > excess of white corpuscles > blood having
white blood1665
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 100 The like Observation about white Blood, had been made by a Learned Physician of his acquaintance.
1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) ii. xi. 332/2 And hence it is, that the Heat of the Stomach extracts a white Chylus out of the Aliments, and why the Heart changes the Chylus into white Blood.
1705 T. Guidott Apol. for Bath 55 It might have been Chyle, or young white Blood not well mix'd with the red.
1772 M. Berdoe Ess. Nature & Circulation Blood 37 The blood is the red lympha, as the lympha is the white blood.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. vii. 85 Abstracting [by blister] a considerable portion of white blood from the system.
1858 J. J. Hayes Yellow Fever 20 The fluids, three in number, are the chyle, the dark and red blood. The chyle, or white blood, flows in lymphatics; the dark blood in veins; the red blood in arteries.
3. Zoology. Blood that does not contain red blood cells, as found in invertebrates and a few vertebrates; haemolymph; coelomic fluid.
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1772 W. Cullen Lect. Materia Medica 152 The third have a heart of one auricle, and one ventricle, with a cold white blood, or, as Linnæus calls it, sanies.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 208 He [sc. Cuvier] classes them under the various heads of animals with red blood and white blood; and again divides them into those having warm and red blood, and those of cold and red blood.
1839 Lancet 7 Dec. 378/2 Leeuwenhœck, and subsequent observers, have shown that the white blood of the invertebrated animals contains corpuscles analogous to those of vertebrata.
1920 W. P. Pycraft Sea-shore vi. 115 Furthermore, they [sc. larval eels] have white blood, ridiculously small heads, large mouths, and for the size of the head, enormous teeth.
2002 Daily Mail (Nexis) 6 May 32 Grasshoppers have white blood.
4. More fully white blood disease. The disease leukaemia. Now historical and rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > excess of white corpuscles > leukaemia
white blood1849
leucocythaemia1852
leukaemia1855
lymphaemia1889
aleukaemic leukaemia1893
erythroleukaemia1927
1849 J. H. Bennett On Cancerous & Cancroid Growths ii. iv. 202 If so, the lesion may be similar to that described by Dr Craigie and myself, and of which Virchow has also given examples under the name of white blood.
1864 W. Aitken Sci. & Pract. Med. (ed. 3) II. iii. 67 That the ‘white-blood’ disease proceeded from a primary affection of the spleen and lymphatic glands.
1901 F. A. Schmidt & E. H. Miles Training of Body 231 This is the case even more in a disease of the blood in which the red [corpuscles] perish and the white are greatly multiplied (Leucæmia or White-blood Disease).
2009 R. Whiting From Bedside to HMO iv. 20 Within only a few years, he [sc. Virchow]..had discovered leukemia, or ‘white blood disease’ as he initially called it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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