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noun affinity, agnation, ancestry, breed, brethren, brood, children, clan, cognation, common ancessry, consanguinity, derivation, descent, ethnic group, family connection, family relationship, family tie, family tree, filiation, genealogical tree, genealogy, gentility, genus, heredity, heritage, issue, kind, kindred, kinsfolk, kinship, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, line, lineage, nationality, next of kin, offspring, one's people, parentage, pedigree, propinquity, relations, sanguis, stock, strain, ties of family, tribe
Associated concepts: blood heirs, blood issue, blood relatives, full blood, half blood, mixed blood
Foreign phrases: Consanguineus est quasi eodem sannuine natus.A person related by consanguinity is, as it were, one born from the same blood. Pueri sunt de sannuine parentum, sed pater et mater non sunt de sannuine puerorum. Children are of the blood of their parrnts, but the father and mother are not of the blood of their children.

See also: ancestry, bloodline, descent, lineage

BLOOD, kindred. This word, in the law sense, is used to signify relationship, stock, or family; as, of the blood of the ancestor. 1 Roper on Leg. 103; 1 Supp. to Ves. jr. 365. In a more extended sense, it means kindred generally. Bac. Max. Reg. 18.
2. Brothers and sisters are said to be of the whole blood, (q. v.) if they have the same father and mother of the half blood, (q. v.) if they have only one parent in common. 5 Whart. Rep. 477.

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He said there was storage capacity of 50,000 blood bags while three other regional blood transfusion centers would be made operational in a month under public private partnership.

All set for first regional blood bank in Sukkur

Blood transfusion authorities have been revived throughout the country while a network of modern regional blood centers supporting hospital based blood banks has been developed and the associated supporting technical work was conducted including capacity building, voluntary blood donation promotion, revising legislation, curriculum development, advocacy etc.

PSDP review meeting approves funds for Safe blood transfusion project

He said that the Safe Blood Transfusion Programme was taking very keen interest in the development and progress of the national blood transfusion service in the country.

Govt starts restructuring blood transfusion system: Prof Hassan

In a clinical study using hand held microscope for measurement of sublingual microcirculation in cardiac surgery patients, we showed that anemia was associated with a low functional capillary density which increased in value following blood transfusion in the sublingual capillary density in cardiac surgery patients (20).

Blood Transfusions Correct Anemia and Improve Tissue Oxygenation in Surgical and Critically ill Patients

Malaria can be transmitted by anopheles mosquito, contaminated syringes, blood transfusion and placenta12.

TRANSFUSION TRANSMISSIBLE INFECTIONS AMONG HEALTHY BLOOD DONORS AT BLOOD BANK FROM CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL and INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH LAHORE

Only one of them, in 2008, was the result of blood transfusion.

14,474 Cases Of HIV Through Blood Transfusion, But Govt Denies Crisis

About 236 (67%) patients were of the opinion that blood of family members, if transfused, carries fewer chances of risk/reactions and 213 (61%) patients stated that they will prefer to receive blood transfusion from their family members.

To Determine Patients' Perceptions and Attitudes for Blood Transfusion

Conclusion: Blood transfusion requirement and number of hospital visits per year are decreased and interval between transfusions is increased after splenectomy.

Surgical outcome of spelenectomy in Thalassemia major in children

As a result, the trigger point of blood transfusion may be different in the emergency use of the existing transfusion guidelines, for the same patient facing different doctors or different patients facing the same doctor.

Randomized Controlled Study on Safety and Feasibility of Transfusion Trigger Score of Emergency Operations

Therefore, the blood transfusions will be provided now free to all patients," the announcement said.

Free blood transfusions for all patients

He also found out that blood transfusion between persons with the same blood group did not lead to the destruction of blood cells, whereas this occurred between persons of different blood groups.

Clinical use of blood and its components in tertiary health care center in northwestern India

LAHORE -- Regional Safe Blood Transfusion Centers will be established in Punjab with the assistance of German Government and in the first phase the buildings of Regional Blood Centers in Bahawalpur and Multan have been completed.