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- noun A spot of blood.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's the back of Jared Padalecki --- the red in the middle is the bloodspot on his shirt.
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The list of blocked sites includes: ⢠hinduunity. org ⢠hinduhumanrights. org ⢠princesskimberley. com ⢠bloodspot. com ⢠dalitstan. org ⢠clickatell. com ⢠blogspot. com ⢠geocities. com ⢠typepad. com
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He picked up another bloodspot a few feet away, and began to follow the trail, moving at a slow, measured pace, eyes fixated on the grass for clues.
Thunder and Ashes Z.A. Recht 2008
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Setting her piece of the embroidery aside, hoping that her aunt would not notice the small brown bloodspot marring the bleached linen, she went down to the hall.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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It represented Hilda as gazing with sad and earnest horror at a bloodspot which she seemed just then to have discovered on her white robe.
The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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They are bigger than American mosquitoes; and if you crush them, after one of their feasts, it makes a terrific bloodspot.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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They are bigger than American mosquitoes; and if you crush them, after one of their feasts, it makes a terrific bloodspot.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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This could be done (where blood is taken) using a bloodspot/Guthrie card and genotyping a few very common SNPs - as although it takes quite a few SNPs to make a sample unique, it doesn't take many to show up a problem, as the lab has to make a (hopefully very rare) sample handling error and the samples still have to match afterwards.
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"As a result of this settlement, DSHS will destroy all bloodspot cards received by the department before May 27, 2009," the health services agency said in a written statement.
Privacy Digest 2010
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"As a result of this settlement, DSHS will destroy all bloodspot cards received by the department before May 27, 2009," the health services agency said in a written statement.
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