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blood doping

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blood doping
n.
The process of increasing the number of circulating red blood cells, either by transfusing an individual with blood that has been previously removed or by administering erythropoietin, in order to increase the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood for improved athletic endurance. Also called blood boosting, blood packing.
blood doping
n
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Athletics (Track & Field)) the illegal practice of removing a quantity of blood from an athlete long before a race and reinjecting it shortly before a race, so boosting oxygenation of the blood


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