貧血 [anemia]
解説: [I don’t actually have This text will be blurred, but this post reminds me of a Feedback post I made a while back ago. It’s a nice read. 貧 on-reading ]
If my spoilers didn’t work properly, oops.
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血脈→ Bloodline
Those vampires have families you know…
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We would say donors 
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I think it’s the 2000s fantastic four movie I got this association from but I’ve always thought nosebleeds were a good way to show mental exertion so it’s funny to me that they have a different connotation in anime and Japanese culture. I had a roommate for a while with a nosebleed problem, sometimes he wouldn’t notice it was happening to him until it got to his shirt.
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That’s not the only danger from blood pressure but it is worth thinking about and keeping an eye on. I personally have high blood pressure but it got a little better between medicine and exercise.
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I didn’t mean to make every association here about vampires but I always thought in a modern urban fantasy kind of setting a blood bank would be like a meals on wheels for vampires. It’s sorted by type and well preserved. They always need more of it too.
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haha it is in quite a lot of vampire shows where they steal from the blood banks
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I had a teacher who had this and low potassium in her blood, she took some supplement for it but also ate bananas in class because they were supposed to be good for potassium.
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If two unrelated vampires drink blood from the same source does that make them blood relatives? 
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** open furiously my World Of Darkness 3rd. edition… *
acktually… I do not know.
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吸 (suck) Part of 吸血 and 吸血鬼
Reminded me of a new fall season anime about an incompetent teen-aged vampire who has trouble sucking blood, but tries to hide it from everyone else in order to be thought of as ‘cool’:
ちゃんと吸えない吸血鬼ちゃん
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I once wrote a book report in the second or third grade on a fantasy book called Cry of the Icemark. The book itself is okay I guess but there’s a part with a treaty to be signed with vampires (signed in blood as is their custom). I was 7 or so and had to define the word vampire for the book report in my own words. I know one when I see one because it’s a well known Halloween thing but I wasn’t sure how to explain it until I thought of an elegant solution. They’re like evil mosquitos because they also suck blood.
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Well, my first reaction was just simply “ew.”
My actual response is 出血.
I find the kanji that make up the meaning interesting: the blood is exiting… so you’re bleeding!
And no, I did not mean to write that like a Wanikani vocab meaning entry! 
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Sorry, didn’t mean to gross people out. 
This is more of what I was expecting from the prompt. Words like bleeding or wounds or something. It is cool how directly this one goes from the kanji to the meaning. Koichi taking notes from you on how to update the mnemonic.
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鉄 iron
I was gonna do vampire but it was already done and then I was gonna do anemia and that was also already done! Wasn’t speedy enough 
reasoning is I feel like most times when I hear mention of blood it’s people saying they wonder if they’re anaemic cause they don’t eat enough iron lolol
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Now I have to look up what anemia is in Japanese!
Answer: 貧血
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It’s better than having the opposite problem if you live in the x-men universe.
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You obviously read a lot less shojo manga than I do 
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I love 血管! Such a literal meaning.
My word is:
瀉血 (しゃけつ) Phlebotomy. This is the word for drawing blood.
The person who does this is a phlebotomist, which I believe is 瀉血医, though that word doesn’t show up in Jisho.
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I only half knew this word in English. I had heard it before but never actually looked it up. Knew it was something medical but not what it actually did.
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