Blood-borne
adjective
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- Blooded
having blood of a specified kind (used in combination): warm-blooded animals. (of horses, cattle, etc.) derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree. the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans consisting of plasma in which the red blood cells, white blood cells, and […]