Blood glucose levels discussed in this article are venous plasma or serum levels measured by standard, automated glucose oxidase methods used in medical laboratories.

Blood glucose can be raised to normal within minutes by taking ( or receiving ) 10-20 grams of carbohydrate.

* integration with blood glucose meters: Blood glucose data can be manually entered into the pump to support the bolus wizard for calculation of the next insulin bolus.

Blood glucose levels and electrolyte concentrations must be monitored when quinine is given by injection.

Blood glucose, electrolyte and cardiac monitoring are not necessary when quinine is given by mouth.

Blood glucose levels are then measured over the following 2 hours.

* Blood glucose – Glucose is a simple sugar and the primary fuel for body cells.

* Blood glucose meter – A machine which electrochemically or coloristically, determines the current level of glucose in a blood sample.

* Blood glucose monitoring – Currently understood as a patient activity -- tracking one's blood glucose level, usually by using a blood glucose meter.

* Blood sugar – A ( misnomer ) name for blood glucose.

See also: Blood glucose monitoring.

* Impaired glucose tolerance ( IGT ) – Blood glucose ( i. e., ' sugar ') levels higher than normal but not high enough to be cause a diagnosis of diabetes.

* Postprandial blood glucose – Blood taken 1 – 2 hours after eating to see the amount of glucose ( sugar ) in the blood.

See also: Blood glucose monitoring.

See also: Blood glucose monitoring ; reagents.

Blood glucose monitoring is a way of testing the concentration of glucose in the blood ( glycemia ).

Mike Judge himself is highly critical of the animation and quality of earlier episodes, in particular the first two --" Blood Drive "/" Give Blood " and " Door to Door "-- which he described as " awful, I don't know why anybody liked it ...

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.

Blood is circulated around the body through blood vessels by the pumping action of the heart.

Blood alcohol content ( BAC ), also called blood alcohol concentration, blood ethanol concentration, or blood alcohol level is most commonly used as a metric of alcohol intoxication for legal or medical purposes.

Blood alcohol content is usually expressed as a percentage of alcohol ( generally in the sense of ethanol ) in the blood.

Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation Throne of Blood makes the character into Capitan Miki ( played by Minoru Chiaki ), slain by Macbeth's equivalent ( Captain Washizu ) when his wife explains that she is with child.

Blood libel ( also blood accusation ) is a false accusation or claim that religious minorities, usually Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays.

Blood loss is usually a secondary cause of death.

* French director Roger Vadim's Et mourir de plaisir ( literally And to die of pleasure, but actually shown in England as Blood and Roses, 1960 ) is based on Carmilla and is considered one of the greatest of the vampire genre.

* The Blood Spattered Bride ( La Novia Ensangrentada ) is a 1972 Spanish horror film written and directed by Vicente Aranda, is based on the text.

* In six of the Castlevania games ; Circle of the Moon, Rondo of Blood, its PSP remake Dracula X Chronicles, Simon's Quest, Judgment, and Lords of Shadow ; there is a female vampire named Carmilla ( also spelled Camilla in Circle of the Moon ).

Blood donations in all endemic Latin American countries undergo Chagas screening, and testing is expanding in countries, such as France, Spain and the United States, that have significant or growing populations of immigrants from endemic areas.

* 1838 – Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza ( Nzobo ) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Dianic Wicca is a female born religion based upon Women's shared Blood Mysteries.

Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " and " Blood Pressure ".

The big crap game is adapted from the story " Blood Pressure ".

Blood is then sampled to assess the changes of the relevant hormones or metabolites.

Transubstantiation is the term used by Roman Catholics to denote what is changed, not to explain how the transformation occurs, since the Catholic Church teaches that " the signs of bread and wine become, in a way surpassing understanding, the Body and Blood of Christ ".

Conventionally this change in the elements is understood to be accomplished at the Epiclesis ( Greek: " invocation ") by which the Holy Spirit is invoked and the consecration of the bread and wine as the Body and Blood of Christ is specifically requested, but since the anaphora as a whole is considered a unitary ( albeit lengthy ) prayer, no one moment within it can be readily singled out.

Blood pressure is checked often during infusing, with the speed of administration adjusted accordingly.

Blood samples were allowed to clot at room temperature for 3 hr, centrifuged and the serum was removed.

The Association of Blood Donors of Denmark precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least 12 months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

Blood feuds could be regulated at meetings, such as the Viking things.

* Blood bankingCertain rare blood groups are stored at low temperatures, such as-165 ° C.

A lifelong fan of science fiction " B-movies ", Ackerman had cameos in over 210 films, including bit parts in many monster movies and science fiction films ( The Howling, Innocent Blood, Return of the Living Dead Part II ), more traditional " imagi-movies " The Time Travelers, Future War, spoofs and comedies ( Amazon Women on the Moon, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, The Wizard of Speed and Time ), and at least one major music video ( Michael Jackson's Thriller ).

It is located in a binary star system ( Gridlock ) within the constellation of Kasterborous ( Pyramids of Mars, Attack of the Cybermen and Voyage of the Damned ), at " galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre " ( Pyramids of Mars ( 1975 ), Full Circle ( 1980 ) and partially in " The Family of Blood " ( 2007 )), which is some 250 million light years away from Earth ( as stated in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie ).

This conflict is often popularly conceived of in terms of the well known battles between Zulu King Dingane and the Boers, most notably at the Battle of Blood River.

Against the Boers at Blood River, massed gunfire broke the back of the Zulu assault, and the Boers were later able to mount a cavalry sweep in counterattack that became a turkey shoot against fleeing Zulu remnants.

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

The band did find some success at the American Music Awards, as Dr. Feelgood was nominated twice for Favorite Hard Rock / Metal Award, losing once to Guns N ' Roses ' Appetite for Destruction, but winning the following year, beating out Aerosmith's Pump and Poison's Flesh And Blood.

Madhuri Dixit was a Guest of Honour along with her husband Dr. Shriram Nene to promote a Blood Donation Camp organised by the MLA Anil Bhosale on the occassion of the birthday of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday at Sambhaji garden on JM Road at Pune, Mumbai. Madhuri also tweeted post her short appearance: Enjoyed spending time in Pune.

For instance, federal scholarships for Native Americans require the student to be enrolled in a federally recognized tribe and have at least one-quarter Native American descent ( equivalent to one grandparent ), attested to by a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood ( CDIB ) card.

Pokey has been referenced twice in the Hitman series of video games: in Hitman: Contracts as an obscure, esoteric easter egg, and more directly in Hitman: Blood Money, where an overheard conversation between guards has one inviting the other to look at the comics on a computer.

The first president of the South African Republic was Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, elected in 1857, son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, who commanded the Boers to victory at the Battle of Blood River.

Initial Zulu success rested on fast-moving surprise attacks and ambushes, but the Voortrekkers recovered and dealt the Zulu a severe defeat from their fortified wagon laager at the Battle of Blood River.

But is present truly and really, so that after the consecration of the bread and of the wine, the bread is transmuted, transubstantiated, converted and transformed into the true Body Itself of the Lord, Which was born in Bethlehem of the ever-Virgin, was baptized in the Jordan, suffered, was buried, rose again, was received up, sits at the right hand of the God and Father, and is to come again in the clouds of Heaven ; and the wine is converted and transubstantiated into the true Blood Itself of the Lord, Which as He hung upon the Cross, was poured out for the life of the world.

Blood cultures are sometimes still positive at this stage.

When Dingane sent an impi ( armed force ) of around twelve thousand Zulu warriors to attack the local contingent of Voortrekkers in response, the Voortrekkers defended themselves at a battle at Nacome River ( called the Battle of Blood River ) on 16 December 1838 where the vastly outnumbered Voortrekker contingent defeated the Zulu warriors.

* April 14 – In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men in Lansing, Kansas.

The IWW publishes a magazine aimed at the British and Irish members, Bread and Roses, a national industrial newsletter for health workers and a specific bulletin for workers in the National Blood Service.

Powell was a pupil at King's Norton Boys ' School before moving to King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he studied classics ( which would later influence his ' Rivers of Blood ' speech ), and was one of the few pupils in the school's history to attain 100 % in an end-of-year English examination.

Technically, this is not actually a Divine Liturgy, but rather a Vespers service at which a portion of the Body and Blood of Christ, which was reserved the previous Sunday, are distributed to the faithful.