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  • Use our hospital Ratings to see how hospitals near you perform in preventing blood-stream infections and how well they follow proper prevention measures..

    Hospital infections: New studies find concerns for surgery patients and children 2011

  • The Japanese are a disease of the skin, the Communists a disease of the blood-stream.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

    Oblomov in Dublin O'Toole, Fintan 2009

  • It turned out his colon had ruptured, spilling pee-pee into his blood-stream.

    Archive 2005-08-01 ps 2005

  • It turned out his colon had ruptured, spilling pee-pee into his blood-stream.

    A Crime of Passion ps 2005

  • She felt he wanted his blood-stream to envelop hers.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Some spread quickly from their origin, traveling through the blood-stream and the lymphatic system and establishing new tumors in other parts of the body; others grow slowly and stay more or less in one place.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • Knowing their source, he fought them studiously, but he knew they would get steadily worse, however resolute he was; they were coming out of his genes and his blood-stream, not his once finely honed, now dimming consciousness.

    Anywhen Blish, James 1970

  • Corpuscles grind in your own blood-stream, like gravel

    Penological Study: Southern Exposure Warren, Robert Penn 1968

  • On the other hand, after one hour any miniaturised germs in his blood-stream will expand to their normal size and that expansion might be harmful for all we know.

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

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