Blood vs. Plasma — What's the Difference?

Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.In vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and blood cells themselves.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended. It differs from serum in that it contains fibrin and other soluble clotting elements.

The fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated by the heart through the vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues.

Blood plasma, especially when sterilized and depleted of cells for transfusion.

A similar fluid in animals other than vertebrates.

Protoplasm or cytoplasm.

The juice or sap of certain plants.

The fluid portion of milk from which the curd has been separated by coagulation; whey.

A vital or animating force; lifeblood.

(Physics) An electrically neutral, highly ionized phase of matter composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles. It is distinct from solids, liquids, and gases.

One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, identified with the blood found in blood vessels, and thought to cause cheerfulness.

Of or relating to a flat-panel display used in televisions, made up of an array of tiny cells each containing a gaseous mixture of xenon and neon that is changed into a plasma state to illuminate a phosphor coating on the inside of the cell.

Bloodshed; murder.

(physics) A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas and electrons.

Temperament or disposition

(hematology) A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin.

Descent from a common ancestor; parental lineage.

(hematology) Blood plasma, free of suspended cells, used in transfusions.

Family relationship; kinship.

(mineralogy) A variety of green quartz, used in ancient times for making engraved ornaments.

Descent from noble or royal lineage

A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.

Recorded descent from purebred stock.

A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.

National or racial ancestry.

A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.

A dandy.

The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.

A member of a tribe of the Blackfoot confederacy inhabiting southern Alberta.

Unorganized material; elementary matter.

To give (a hunting dog) its first taste of blood.

A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.

To subject (troops) to experience under fire

Same as blood plasma.

To initiate by subjecting to an unpleasant or difficult experience.

A state of matter in which charged particles such as electrons and atomi nuclei have sufficiently high energy to move freely, rather than be bound in atoms as in ordinary matter; it has some of the properties of a gas, but is a conductor of electricity.

A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended

A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).

A green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone

(historical) One of the four humours in the human body.

(physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons;

A blood test or blood sample.

The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.

(poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.

Temper of mind; disposition; mood

(obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.

A blood horse, one of good pedigree.

(figurative) Bloodshed.

Alternative case form of Blood.

A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.

(transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

To let blood (from); to bleed.

(transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.

Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

The fleshy nature of man.

The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.

A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.

Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; - as if the blood were the seat of emotions.

A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.

The juice of anything, especially if red.

To bleed.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.

To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart;

The descendants of one individual;

The shedding of blood resulting in murder;

Temperament or disposition;

A dissolute man in fashionable society

People viewed as members of a group;

Smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill