How to Use blood plasma in a Sentence

blood plasma

noun
  • One is made from human blood plasma that has been screened and treated.
    Health, 21 Sep. 2025
  • People get paid for parting with their blood plasma and their sperm.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Terry lived in her truck for 11 months and sold her blood plasma to survive.
    Marsha Mercer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2018
  • The zoo withdrew blood plasma from Ruth, who was part of a zoo donor program.
    Don Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Find out what blood plasma is and how it’s involved in a blood transfusion or other procedures.
    Gagandeep Brar, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024
  • In fact, saltwater from the ocean and our blood plasma are 98% identical.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • About 50 proteins came from blood plasma, and their presence suggests bleeding gums.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, scientists continue the search for clear data on blood plasma.
    al, 22 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Utah coronavirus patients have been receiving blood plasma since April.
    Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
  • In the test, the researchers studied blood plasma collected at UAB.
    Lee Roop, AL.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The ladies go to a local winery, and Leah confronts Ramona about her blood plasma donation.
    Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • 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 same team later showed that injections of young blood plasma alone were sufficient to produce similar effects.
    Elie Dolgin, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
  • Treatment with a mix of antibodies or removing and treating blood plasma can help in therapy.
    Kevin Spain, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Astronauts start to urinate more, losing about 10–15% of their blood plasma within days.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • People who have already recovered from the virus build up antibodies in their blood plasma that can be beneficial to people who still have the illness.
    Washington Post, 11 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
  • After isolating the stem cells, they were placed in a bath of human blood plasma, insulin, and a solution containing iron and transferrin protein.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Indeed, in the cycling studies, women sweated out a greater percentage of their body mass but their blood plasma volume decreased by a similar amount compared to men.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 11 Oct. 2021

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