History of Blood
Egyptians used this practice around 2500 B.C. to try to cure diseases.
What is bloodletting?
These vessels carry oxygenated blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This scientist discovered blood types A, B, and O in 1901.
Who is Karl Landsteiner?
The first blood donor service was started in this year.
What is 1922?
The study of blood as it applies to crime is called this.
What is forensic serology?
Greeks distinguished between these two types of blood vessels in 500 B.C.
What are arteries and veins?
These vessels carry deoxygenated blood toward the heart.
What are veins?
This blood type was discovered in 1902.
What is blood type AB?
This clinic developed a method to store blood in 1935.
What is the Mayo Clinic?
Blood spatter patterns are used to do this to a crime scene.
What is reconstruct a crime scene?
This scientist first viewed blood cells under a microscope in 1659.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
This structural feature allows arteries to handle high blood pressure.
What is a thick, elastic muscle layer?
Blood typing is considered this type of forensic evidence.
What is class evidence?
This doctor established the first blood bank in 1937.
Who is Dr. Bernard Fantus?
Blood on a weapon can do this.
What is connect an object to a crime?
This medical procedure was first performed in 1795.
What is a blood transfusion?
This feature inside veins prevents blood from flowing backward
What are valves?
Blood typing is useful to do this to suspects.
What is rule out suspects?
This disease was first recorded in 1959 and spread through blood.
What is AIDS (or HIV)?
Blood on clothing can do this.
What is connect a suspect to a crime?
This protein discovered in 1940 is responsible for Rh+ or Rh– blood.
What is the Rh protein (Rh factor)?
This is why veins can have thinner walls than arteries.
What is lower blood pressure?
This blood test provides individual evidence instead.
What is DNA profiling?
This test developed in 1985 screens blood by detecting antibodies.
What is the ELISA test?
Blood found at a scene that belongs to a suspect can do this.
What is place a suspect at the crime scene?