Definition of Blood relative

1. Noun. One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another.

Exact synonyms: Blood Relation, Cognate, Sib
Generic synonyms: Relation, Relative
Derivative terms: Cognate

Medical Definition of Blood relative

1. A relative of a person sharing some of the sources from which genes are derived. These will include many of the genes that operate in the blood and its constituents but no special importance attaches to the blood as a vehicle of inheritance. Spouses are not ordinarily blood relatives and when they are, the marriage is consanguineous and carries a higher risk than average of progeny homozygous by descent from ancestors in common. Such marriages are discouraged and within certain degrees of kindred may be illegal. Origin: a folk metaphor of breeding (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Relative

blood pool imaging
blood porphyrin level
blood pressure
blood pressure
blood pressure determination
blood pressure monitors
blood products
blood profile
blood proteins
blood protein electrophoresis
blood pudding
blood puzzles
blood relation
blood relationship
blood relative (current term)
blood relative (current term)
blood sausage
blood sedimentation
blood serum
blood smear
blood spavin
blood spavin
blood specimen collection
blood sport
blood spots
blood stains
blood substitute
blood substitutes
blood sugar
blood test

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