Antonia  +  90314 Fri, 15 Apr 05 04:01 PM Hi, I have two questions: 1) What does it mean to cook sth until it's fork-tender? 2) When we say that sb has high concentration of sth in one's blood central, what does blood central mean? Thank you Antonia Joined on Fri, Mar 11 2005 Contributing Member 1,266

	julielai  +  90319 Fri, 15 Apr 05 04:10 PM Hi Antonia, 1. Sounds like it's cooked when you can easily stick a fork into it. Not sure about the second one. Hope it helps julielai Joined on Sun, Oct 24 2004 Senior Member 3,827 Just another blogger (http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/julie-lai)

	pieanne  +  90321 Fri, 15 Apr 05 04:18 PM I saw your post about blood central earlier on, Antonia, I tried to Google, but nothing came... I guess it has to do with the main blood flood, but I don't have a clue as to what it means... pieanne Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005 South of France ...But I'm Belgian! Veteran Member 7,517 I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...

	LanguageLover  +  90324 Fri, 15 Apr 05 04:34 PM Blood central system? And what is that? LanguageLover Joined on Fri, Feb 25 2005 Contributing Member 1,507 The similarities among the languages are more than their differences!

	pieanne  +  90325 Fri, 15 Apr 05 04:35 PM Ah, no, it's blood central, not central blood. Maybe it's a central/main/basic blood analysis? I'll check! pieanne

	khoff  +  90371 Fri, 15 Apr 05 07:06 PM Could you give us more context or the rest of the sentence about "blood central"? I've never heard this phrase, it sounds very strange. khoff Joined on Sun, Mar 6 2005 Senior Member 3,272 Native speaker of American English (but not a grammar expert)

	pieanne  +  90382 Fri, 15 Apr 05 07:36 PM I'm waiting for a reply from a friend-doctor... but it may take some time! pieanne

	Antonia  +  90555 Sat, 16 Apr 05 08:10 AM Hi, Sorry I wasn't at home last night. Well, here's the context: High concentrations of hyoscyamine, atrosine and belladonnine as well as traces of scopolamine were found in her central blood and urine. Antonia

	hbae787  +  90597 Sat, 16 Apr 05 01:08 PM Hi Antonia, Central blood constitutes the volume of blood in the lungs, heart, and great vessels. (This amount plus blood in small veins, venules and capillaries become total body's blood.) Central blood stream is analogous to heavy traffic on the freeway system in a city, whereas blood stream in small veins, nenules and capillaries (tiny vessels bringing blood to/from tissues) is like traffic on smaller roads. hbae787 Joined on Thu, Oct 28 2004 Houston Junior Member 87