blood doping

[bluhd doh-ping]

noun

1. a procedure in which an athlete is injected with erythropoietin or transfused with blood, thereby increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity and boosting athletic performance.

blood doping

noun

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of blood doping¹

First recorded in 1970–75