body fluid vs blood

blood vs body fluid

body fluid and blood both are nouns.

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

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

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

body 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 body 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.

body 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

body 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 body fluid and blood

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