blood doping
noun Sports Medicine.
a procedure in which an athlete is injected with erythropoietin, his or her own blood, or the blood of a family member prior to competition, purportedly increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity as a result of the addition of red blood cells.
Also called
blood packing,
blood boosting.
Words nearby blood doping
blood count,
blood crystal,
blood cyst,
blood disk,
blood donor,
blood doping,
blood dyscrasia,
blood feud,
blood fluke,
blood gas,
blood gas analysis
British Dictionary definitions for blood boosting
blood doping
noun
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