Sentences with phrase «large volume of blood»

Elephant seals have a very large volume of blood, allowing them to hold a large amount of oxygen for use when diving.
This traps a large volume of blood in the stomach.
If your pet has lost a large volume of blood, oxygen therapy will be necessary.
Currently the most reliable way to detect infection is by detecting the bacteria in the blood but this requires a relatively large volume of blood.
Wells and his colleagues argue that during hard times it can draw on two possible reserves: the oxygen carried in its large volume of blood, and oxygen trapped in the gas chamber that buoys up its shell.
Since the actual concentration of bacteria in the blood is low, large volumes of blood are needed to increase sensitivity.

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«Although the venom is diluted in the much larger blood volume of a human and do not cause stroke, bite victims can still die from internal bleeding.»
He'd developed crampy abdominal pain and passed a large volume of bright - red blood.
Similar to humans, increasingly larger volumes of amyloid beta plaques and blood vessels were found with greater age.
A typical virus is about a million times smaller in volume than a bat blood cell, so one challenge is sifting the evidence of viral genetic material from the background of more abundant cells with larger genomes.
If you weigh 80 pounds (36 kilograms), your body probably contains at least 2 liters of blood — the volume of a large soda bottle.
In large animal models of heart failure, the researchers found that gene therapy delivery of high dose SUMO - 1 alone, as well as SUMO - 1 and SERCA2 together, result in stronger heart contractions, better blood flow, and reduced heart volumes, compared to just SERCA2 gene therapy alone.
A treatment plan may include red blood cell transfusions, intravenous immune globulin to strengthen the immune system, an iron - rich diet or iron supplements, exchange transfusions to replace damaged blood with fresh blood, surgery, immunosuppressive therapy, or partial exchange transfusions to slowly remove and replace a large portion of a patients blood volume.
A woman who consumes a diet with a large volume of sugar or sodium affects insulin levels and blood pressure.
It was once thought that all women should supplement with large amounts of iron when pregnant, due to the natural increase in blood volume.
But what is worse is that the right side of the heart and pulmonary artery (pulmonary trunk) were not designed to handle the high - pressure blood arriving through the PDA from the infant's aorta, nor was the left side of the heart designed to accept the larger - than - normal volume of blood now coming back from the lungs.
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