How to Use blood plasma in a Sentence

blood plasma

noun

• In fact, saltwater from the ocean and our blood plasma are 98% identical.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• Terry lived in her truck for 11 months and sold her blood plasma to survive.
  — Marsha Mercer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2018
• Nasal steroid sprays, and jabs of platelet-rich blood plasma straight to the nose, could speed cellular healing.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
• People get paid for parting with their blood plasma and their sperm.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• What the data do show is that a higher dose of blood plasma is better than a lower one.
  — Drew Armstrong, Bloomberg.com, 23 Aug. 2020
• One young man took public transportation to Van Nuys to sell his blood plasma — five visits, $300 — to get through the month.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• In the test, the researchers studied blood plasma collected at UAB.
  — Lee Roop, AL.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The more fearsome-sounding V-Plump, Ms. Barshop said, injects fillers and your own blood plasma into the labia majora to smooth and plump.
  — Laren Stover, New York Times, 7 July 2018
• The study could re-energize the debate over whether blood plasma is an effective treatment for the disease.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 23 Oct. 2020
• The ladies go to a local winery, and Leah confronts Ramona about her blood plasma donation.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• She’s been living off her savings, selling her blood plasma and frequenting food pantries just to get by — all while taking care of a teenage son.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 3 July 2023
• In the late 1930s, Drew invented a way to process and preserve blood plasma for transfusions, which allowed it to be stored, shipped and used for longer periods of time.
  — Janel Davis, ajc, 4 Feb. 2022
• About 50 proteins came from blood plasma, and their presence suggests bleeding gums.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2018
• Then other cells cause your capillaries to leak blood plasma; its function is to envelop and slow down the invaders.
  — Houston Chronicle, 13 May 2018
• Transfusions of blood plasma have long been used for diseases without a cure to equip the ill with disease-fighting antibodies.
  — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 19 June 2020
• The group was tasked with finding a way to stabilize blood plasma proteins so that soldiers could receive lifesaving transfusions in the field.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• Sweat is responsible solely for cooling us down; anything that emerges with it is incidental, just along for the ride from the blood plasma to our skin’s surface.
  — Sarah Everts, WSJ, 17 July 2021
• If there’s more than half a nanogram of a chemical per milliliter of blood plasma, the FDA says that chemical must be tested for possible health effects.
  — oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2020
• Gorging on high-glycemic foods (lots of sugar and starch) can concentrate tryptophan in your blood plasma, boosting its effect.
  — Leeaundra Keany, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2010
• People with these antibodies are very likely to be immune to the virus, and their blood plasma might be crucial to helping develop a vaccine.
  — Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2020
• Adrian Collins This idea that water—which constitutes more than half our bodies and 90 percent of our blood plasma—holds the key to some kind of metamorphosis is irresistible to me.
  — Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• Platelet-rich plasma: A healthcare provider injects your blood plasma into the affected area with this procedure.
  — Melanie Rud, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• The first clotting factor products, which came onto the market in the mid-1960s, were derived from human blood plasma, with thousands of donations combined to create one batch.
  — Jenny Gold, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• The same team later showed that injections of young blood plasma alone were sufficient to produce similar effects.
  — Elie Dolgin, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
• Meanwhile, scientists continue the search for clear data on blood plasma.
  — al, 22 Sep. 2020
• The latter is simply a transfusion of blood plasma from a person who recovered from the disease — so each treatment requires a separate donor.
  — Sandi Doughton, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• Many of them believed instead that antibodies and other substances in the blood plasma, not cells, were the primary agents of immunity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
• Sulfate, which reacts with amino acids in the anophelins, strengthened the electrostatic forces between the proteins, making them better able to bind to the enzyme in blood plasma that causes clotting.
  — Vanessa Zainzinger, Science | AAAS, 10 Apr. 2018
• Oxygen simply diffuses into their circulating blood plasma from the frigid seawater by way of the fish’s enlarged gills and smooth skin.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
• But given how the FDA has handled hydroxychloroquine and now blood plasma, the agency could do everything right with a vaccine and the decision might still seem suspect.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024