Is menstrual blood different than regular blood in your body?

I am just a freshman who is a curious and I am pretty sure I have something wrong in this. If cancer is a large amount of white blood cells attacking other cells (I think) then why not put some virus or bacterial cells in the patient for the white blood...

This sounds weird but i popped a pimple on my boyfriend face and it started bleeding alot! He never wanted to prick his finger to check his blood sugar so i decided to use the blood on his face. The reading was 309! Im scared for him that that could...

A site says that blood glucose gets removed and the hormone insulin (made by the Pancreas) causes the BODY CELLS to remove the blood glucose. However my revision book says that insulin causes the LIVER to remove blood glucose from the blood and store...

I have seen a lot of blood donation camps around. I, myself, is an active blood donor. When I talked to people organizing such camps, I come to know that a lot of money is spent on testing of each unit of blood, to find it suitable for further use. Now...

I was curious because every month every woman goes through their menstrual cycle and wanted to know how much blood each individual have. And 2) How much blood do we loose from our menstrual cycle because it looks a whole lot to me. And 3) Why can we...

All of my life I've had a stable core body temp of 96.7 when I'm healthy. I recently was told that I might have diabetes but when I tested my blood glucose it was normal so it was suggested that I likely have low blood pressure. The reason that was suggested...

well this sounds like a simple enough, chemistry type of a question...or maybe biology. anyway i want to know how blood is made in the body, and how it is kept 'fresh' like, the blood you have now continues to circulate in your body throughout your whole...

I thought that blood would be a specific under the more broad category of body fluid. However, the wording used in my book does not imply this. What is blood, then? What ...show more