blood specimen arthropod meal of blood specimen A specimen of the blood ingested by an arthropod. VEuPathDB A specimen used in a blood meal assay to determine what is the source of blood ingested by a mosquito. blood meal https://github.com/obi-ontology/obi/issues/1117 arthropod meal of blood specimen Chris Stoeckert Jie Zheng The mosquito feeds on a human for example, ingests the blood of the human, this blood is then taken from the tummy of a mosquito and a PCR may be run on this specimen to identify that the mosquito definitely fed on a human. VEuPathDB metadata complete