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plasma as in:  The Red Cross delivered plasma

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  • She has a rare disease that is treated with plasma protein therapy.
  • I'd heard there was a clinic near the mall that paid people for plasma.   (source)
    plasma = blood
  • Tojo was found in his home that day, sitting in a chair, blood gushing from a self-inflicted bullet wound in his chest. Whispering "Banzai!" and saying he'd rather die than face trial, Tojo was given a pint of American blood plasma, then taken to a hospital.   (source)
  • They're giving him plasma now.   (source)
    plasma = the liquid portion of blood
  • There were hints of much worse things around us now like a faint odor in the air, evoked by words like "plasma" and "psycho" and "sulfa," strange words like that with endings like Latin nouns.   (source)
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plasma as in:  a plasma gas

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  • Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down all around your canal-side dinner table."†   (source)
  • Of course, the dropcops expected me to have redundant security, which is why they'd brought plasma welders.†   (source)
  • An old movie plays on an antique plasma-screen TV.†   (source)
  • Orange worms of plasma began to flux and crawl in the tubes of the OPEN sign.†   (source)
  • At any moment, the plasma outer layer of one of them may begin to expand and swallow its last planet, our world.†   (source)
  • After a few months at the Ohio Senate, as my bills piled up and I found fewer and fewer ways to make up the difference between my spending and my income (one can donate plasma only twice per week, I learned), I decided to get another job.†   (source)
  • The suspended fluid reminded Langdon of a video he had once seen of a water droplet in zero G. Although he knew the globule was microscopic, he could see every changing gorge and undulation as the ball of plasma rolled slowly in suspension.†   (source)
  • The sisters moved between the beds swiftly, giving injections—probably morphine—or administering the transfusion needles to connect the injured to the vacolitres of whole blood and the yellow flasks of plasma that hung like exotic fruits from the tall mobile stands.†   (source)
  • As a rule they watched the unfolding of events on the Noodie News, via the Net, but for a change they sometimes watched fully clothed newscasters on the wall-sized plasma screen in Uncle Pete's leatherette-upholstered TV room.†   (source)
  • First, because there was not one chance in a million that it would actually help, and second, because plasma screens grow extremely hot after prolonged use.†   (source)
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  • Apparently the toothpaste I'd used on the lapel of my coat had contained peroxide or some other bleaching agent since the scrubbed spot had faded to a white halo the size of my hand, chalky at the outer edges, ringing the just-visible ghost of Frits's cranial plasma.†   (source)
  • She leans up over the reclined bodies of three oily men—green-blue tattoos on their arms, stubble on their chins, the kind of men I pictured donating plasma—and gives a finger wave with her loose arm.†   (source)
  • He reached down as if to massage his missing leg, then he passed out, and Rat Kiley put on a tourniquet and administered morphine and ran plasma into him.†   (source)
  • A static-filled video screen showed one of the dropships growing a blue-plasma tall as it decelerated.†   (source)
  • These flaming brands ignited a fire that, in those narrow confines, soon depleted the available air and extinguished its own flames, leaving in their place a superheated plasma that needed only a fresh supply of oxygen to become explosive.†   (source)
  • But they all sounded like witches' brews: the plasma of chickens, purée of calf fetuses, special salts, and blood from human umbilical cords.†   (source)
  • The back half of the cave was an IMAX theater with two full-size screens and a line of smaller plasma monitors across the bottom, so Thor could watch two feature films while keeping track of a dozen different sporting events.†   (source)
  • The October's medical locker had a supply of frozen plasma, and the two corpsmen already had two units running into the lieutenant.†   (source)
  • Whenever I tried to talk him into taking it easy with one of the million DVDs under the big-screen plasma TV, he would lure me out of the house with magic words like coral reefs and submerged caves and sea turtles.†   (source)
  • Inside, the house was perfectly decorated, carpeted, and furnished, with a big plasma television.†   (source)
  • One guy had a plasma bottle strapped to his helmet.†   (source)
  • Fresh frozen plasma, warmed blood, and fluids had given Junior a recordable blood pressure and a respectable temperature.†   (source)
  • In keeping with the invalid theme, there was a study off the bedroom with another plasma screen, just for the PlayStation.†   (source)
  • They had both hemorrhaged badly, and blood plasma was in short supply, our needs being low on the wartime priority list.†   (source)
  • Some begins to suggest a sterner mission: flares, plasma, bandages, crucifixes, holy water, canisters of disinfectant to spray on corpses.†   (source)
  • I isolated various components of your blood, white cells, plasma, platelets, red cells-the virus is reacting to the red cells.†   (source)
  • And it could do it many different ways: strep produced an enzyme, streptokinase, that dissolved coagulated plasma.†   (source)
  • There was also a type of person who lived downtown full time, not in the Republic but in the bus station or on the sidewalk around the Red Cross plasma center.†   (source)
  • He has electrical engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate infusion plasma physics from the University of California-Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • With a hot whoosh, roiling gouts of wind-harried flames spewed through the treetops immediately overhead, like a deadly blast from a futuristic plasma weapon.†   (source)
  • What matters now is plasma.†   (source)
  • Superfires were what happened when a wall of plasma hit a modern city Everything in its path caught fire.†   (source)
  • Presently I got dizzy and sat down in the mud and when I woke up, a medic was giving me plasma.†   (source)
  • He was in there deep; his snout drilled far into my flesh enjoying the refreshment of the plasma coursing through my veins.†   (source)
  • Swooning at the plasma center, that was a nice touch.†   (source)
  • Artemis's visage grew to fill the plasma screen.†   (source)
  • The plasma bombs blossomed like orange and blood-red flowers planted in a perfect grid.†   (source)
  • A liquid plasma containing millions of positrons.†   (source)
  • At that moment, across town, Trish Dunne was seated in the glow of the plasma wall inside the Cube.†   (source)
  • He wondered if he'd need some drugs and decided to grab an armful, along with two units of plasma.†   (source)
  • And he was always brandishing an oversize plasma rifle the size of a snowmobile.†   (source)
  • Katherine strode over, eyes riveted to the plasma wall.†   (source)
  • He had been rated in plasma grenades, he!†   (source)
  • The two guys in front were carrying plasma welders.†   (source)
  • The centaur pointed to a live feed from the Eurosat, which was displayed on a large plasma screen.†   (source)
  • Two of the dropcops climbed into the back with us, stowing their plasma welders in a locker.†   (source)
  • When the plasma wall flickered to life, the image before them looked like home-video footage.†   (source)
  • Katherine eyed the redacted document on the plasma wall and heard Dr. Abaddon's voice.†   (source)
  • She stared a moment longer and then flipped the plasma wall's power switch.†   (source)
  • Down the block from the plasma center was a place called Burger Derby.†   (source)
  • Plasma for Peter Jackson, dextrose and water for the baby.†   (source)
  • It converted matter to plasma and electricity.†   (source)
  • The guy with the plasma taped to his helmet, the sergeant crying.†   (source)
  • A huge plasma screen took up most of a wall in the living room.†   (source)
  • I yelled for somebody to hold the plasma bottle while I put a battle dressing on.†   (source)
  • Put him in ICU where we can warm him up, give him more fresh frozen plasma and blood.†   (source)
  • The main thing people did for money around there was to give plasma, but I drew the line.†   (source)
  • What it does release is plasma, huge piles of flying burning rock and hot gases.†   (source)
  • He tied a plasma bottle to the kid's rifle and jammed it bayonet-first into the ground.†   (source)
  • I could have watched in my room, but the plasma screen was in the living room.†   (source)
  • The fiery reentry culminating in the plasma explosion of the divorce.†   (source)
  • The picture on the plasma screen was of a ball of metal.†   (source)
  • "Check this out," Tyler said, turning on a plasma screen.†   (source)
  • Traceroutes were extremely fast, and a long list of network devices appeared almost instantly on the plasma wall.†   (source)
  • As a medic, Rat Kiley carried a canvas satchel filled with morphine and plasma and malaria tablets and surgical tape and comic books and all the things a medic must carry, including M&M's for especially bad wounds, for a total weight of nearly 20 pounds.†   (source)
  • Her bed was comfortable, the reading light was good, she had a big-screen plasma television so we could lie around and watch movies in bed if we felt like it; and the stainless-steel fridge was always well-stocked with Girl Food: hummus and olives, cake and champagne, lots of silly take-out vegetarian salads and half a dozen kinds of ice cream.†   (source)
  • Ye had carefully studied these membranelike boundary surfaces suspended in the high-energy plasma ocean of the sun and discovered them to be full of wonderful properties.†   (source)
  • Plasma-screen TVs toppled.†   (source)
  • Slavin was only the first of many who have since turned their bodies into businesses, including nearly two million Americans who currently sell their blood plasma, many of them on a regular basis.†   (source)
  • Oh, those are awesome plasma days!†   (source)
  • Now there were two missile tubes separating him from his friend in the GRU, who was probably trying to crosswire the warheads and make half a cubic mile of ocean turn to plasma.†   (source)
  • But then we all climb into Rose's old Chrysler—old-old, one of those where the front seat goes all the way across, a grandmotherly car that smells of lady cigarettes—and off we merrily go to the plasma donation center.†   (source)
  • Someone in the assault boat had sealed the airlock and now a terrified commando used a shaped plasma charge to blow the portal open.†   (source)
  • A second streak of plasma becomes visible as the Los Angeles puts more distance between itself and the rapidly decaying little black hole.†   (source)
  • It continued past long storage racks that held a wide array of weaponry: magic swords, shields, powered armor suits, plasma rifles, railguns, and countless other weapons.†   (source)
  • I glanced over at Art3mis just in time to see her incinerate a dozen Sixers in the space of five seconds, using balls of blue plasma that she hurled out of her palms, while ignoring the steady stream of laser bolts and magic missiles ricocheting off her transparent body shield.†   (source)
  • Kassad pulled a plasma grenade from a corpse's bandolier, leaped to the tank hatch, was thirty meters away before the explosion geysered flame as high as the assault boat's bow.†   (source)
  • Just before first light, the Consul's ebony spaceship rose on a tail of blue plasma and punched through thickening clouds as it climbed toward space and rendezvous.†   (source)
  • Leaving the machine behind, Katherine led Peter into the Cube's control room and sat him down in front of the plasma wall.†   (source)
  • Avoiding high explosives because of the Grand Mosque, the Revolutionary Guard used automatic weapons, crude energy cannon, plasma charges, and human wave attacks.†   (source)
  • Inside the control room, Katherine stood in the soft glow of the plasma wall and gazed up at the enigmatic document they had uncovered.†   (source)
  • The warmth of plasma explosions.†   (source)
  • Trish Dunne stared in amazement at the search-spider results that were materializing on the plasma wall before her.†   (source)
  • Core intelligences not only create the infrastructure for Hegemony society but are necessary for everything from FORCE deployment to the failsafes on stockpiled nuclear and plasma arsenals.†   (source)
  • Tonight, she was apparently analyzing data on the control room's plasma wall—a huge flat-screen display that looked like something out of NASA mission control.†   (source)
  • Trish motioned to the plasma wall.†   (source)
  • The Ousters responded with a barrage of nuclear and plasma weapons, pinning the ground troops under forcefields while the Ouster infantry retreated to prepared "defenses around cities and dropship staging areas.†   (source)
  • Its brilliance reminded me of a torchship I once had watched while it created its own plasma nova against the dark limb of a sullen gas giant...The city was a five-tiered honeycomb of white buildings, all illuminated by warmly glowing lanterns from within and by countless torches from without.†   (source)
  • As if to demonstrate what war had once been about, the Ousters scoured North Bressia-first with several hundred fallout-free nuclear weapons and tactical plasma bombs, then with deathbeams, and finally with tailored viruses.†   (source)
  • Plasma weapons.†   (source)
  • He was in the Civic Center Building in Buckminster, one of only three buildings left standing in the city, giving curt answers to stupid questions from a Worldweb newsteep when a plasma booby trap no larger than a microswitch exploded fifteen floors above, blew the newsteep and two of Kassad's aides through a ventilator grille into the street beyond, and dropped the building on him.†   (source)
  • The group went out into the cool evening air, shielding their eyes from the staggering display of silent explosions which filled the sky: pure white fusion bursts expanding like explosive ripples across a lapis pond; smaller, brighter plasma implosions in blue and yellow and brightest red, curling inward like flowers folding for the night: the lightning dance of gigantic heliwhip displays, beams the size of small worlds cutting their swath across light-hours and being contorted by the riptides of defensive singularities: the aurora shimmer of defense fields leaping and dying under the assault of terrible energies only to be reborn nanoseconds later.†   (source)
  • Shaped plasma charges.†   (source)
  • Not only in the sense that the stars as we see them are echoes of events that occurred light-years distant in time and space: everything up there and indeed everything down here is a fossil, a leftover from the first picoseconds of creation, when the universe crystallized out from the primal homogeneous plasma.†   (source)
  • The fireplace was big enough to park a car in, with a plasma-screen TV above the mantel and massive leather sofas on either side.†   (source)
  • At one end of the living room, a big leather couch faced a plasma-screen TV with about six different game systems stacked in the media cabinet.†   (source)
  • When the plasma had emptied into him, Doc took out a fresh bottle and spiked it and attached the cord.†   (source)
  • Rudy took the needle, and Stink held the plasma and cord, and Rudy shoved the needle into Bernie's arm.†   (source)
  • Plus two of plasma.†   (source)
  • Plasma exchange.†   (source)
  • He regretted it for the rest of his life, this medical corpsman who dashed through machine-gun fire to give plasma to wounded and dying Marines.†   (source)
  • And another plasma screen.†   (source)
  • He raced through the mortar and machine-gun fire to the wounded Marine, administered plasma from a bottle strapped to a rifle he'd planted in the sand, and then dragged the boy to safety as bullets pinged off the rocks.†   (source)
  • Most of the equipment was handmade, and mostly by the group of scientists and lab techs that clustered around the room's biggest plasma screen.†   (source)
  • And mostly they were being bought for the really excellent, vacuum-resistant, water-resistant, plasma-resistant, drop-resistant cases.†   (source)
  • Tyler commed a command and a three-dimensional representation of the solar system came up on four of the plasma screens.†   (source)
  • He could view it through the implants, but some things you just needed the emotional satisfaction of watching on a nine-square-meter plasma.†   (source)
  • The air was filled with dust, and the ring of plasma screens that had given instant access to information around the world was now a shattered mass of expensive plastics.†   (source)
  • The last of the plasma could he used for ... Tyler realized his basic science background was kicking out information that was contradictory to background and gave up.†   (source)
  • And then it did ...something with the plasma and got more electricity and less plasma, somehow converting the neutrons and protons of the plasma to electrons?†   (source)
  • The immense swath of damage caused every gravity plate, every power system, to fail in near simultaneity, and the powerful Horvath cruiser came apart in a flash of gas and plasma.†   (source)
  • Tyler had his own TV crew, thank you very much, and had set up position on the command platform of the Lair so the backdrop was the plasma screens, now all set to shots of various space projects.†   (source)
  • The same damage had happened to the bridges as in SF, and even most of the ferries were destroyed by the combination of the plasma wave and the very small, very intense tsunami that had been kicked up by the strike which centered more or less on the Chelsea Piers.†   (source)
  • The main command center, which was where Tyler and Steve were watching the arriving Horvath ship, had a two-story wall of plasma screens, which were set to not only the view of the ship, but schematics of most of the space projects Tyler had ongoing, business channels and news services.†   (source)
  • Allied doctors who came in after the surrender found plasma and penicillin very effective.†   (source)
  • There's a protein in muscle plasma called myosin that coagulates in the muscle fiber and causes rigor mortis.†   (source)
  • in dusty bales, smelling atrociously, pushed back behind torn and rotten screens of geometrical work; Persian water-jugs for the hands after meals; dull copper incense-burners neither Chinese nor Persian, with friezes of fantastic devils running round them; tarnished silver belts that knotted like raw hide; hairpins of jade, ivory, and plasma; arms of all sorts and kinds, and a thousand other oddments were cased, or piled, or merely thrown into the room, leaving a clear space only round the rickety deal table, where Lurgan Sahib worked.†   (source)
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