All 5 Uses
plasma
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- 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.†
Chpt 1.
- 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.†
Chpt 2.
- Some begins to suggest a sterner mission: flares, plasma, bandages, crucifixes, holy water, canisters of disinfectant to spray on corpses.†
Chpt 6. *
- He tied a plasma bottle to the kid's rifle and jammed it bayonet-first into the ground.†
Chpt 9.
- I yelled for somebody to hold the plasma bottle while I put a battle dressing on.†
Chpt 13.
Definitions:
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(1)
(plasma as in: The Red Cross delivered plasma) the liquid portion of blood
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(2)
(plasma as in: a plasma gas) an ionized gas (typically at high temperature) that is a good conductor of electricity and reacts to magnetic fields
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)