bodily fluid vs blood

blood vs bodily fluid

bodily fluid and blood both are nouns.

bodily fluid is not a verb while blood is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bodily fluid	Yes	No	No	No
blood	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, blood is a hyponym of bodily fluid; that is, blood is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bodily fluid:

bodily fluid: the liquid parts of the body
blood: the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets

Other hyponyms of bodily fluid include aqueous humor, aqueous humour, vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour, endolymph, perilymph, ECF, extracellular fluid, intracellular fluid, juice, succus, karyolymph, milk, amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, waters, blood serum, serum, chyle, lymph, come, cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid, ink, secretion, black bile, melancholy, choler, yellow bile, lochia, festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration, cerebrospinal fluid, spinal fluid.

bodily fluid (noun)	blood (noun)
the liquid parts of the body	temperament or disposition
	the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
	the hereditary derivation of an individual
	people viewed as members of a group
	a dissolute man in fashionable society

bodily fluid (verb)	blood (verb)
	smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

Difference between bodily fluid and blood

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