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red blood cell: see blood blood, fluid pumped by the heart that circulates throughout the body via the arteries, veins, and capillaries (see circulatory system; heart). An adult male of average size normally has about 6 quarts (5.6 liters) of blood.
..... Click the link for more information. . erythrocyteor red blood cell or red blood corpuscleBlood cell that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. Hemoglobin gives the cell—and whole blood—its colour. Red cells are small, round, flexible, and concave on both sides and lack a nucleus. They develop continuously in bone marrow in several stages and are stored in the spleen. The mature form lives 100–120 days. Adult human blood has about 5.2 million red cells per cu mm. Some conditions change their shape (e.g., pernicious anemia, sickle-cell anemia) or number (e.g., anemia, polycythemia). red blood cell [′red ′bləd ‚sel] (histology) Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | They found my liver was distended, my stomach was swollen, the red corpuscles were attacking the white ones as an infection raged, my oesophagus was red raw and I had millions of helicobactor germs invading the lining of my stomach. Don't take my word for it, speak to those folk who have pounds, lengths and race times coursing through their veins, rather than red corpuscles. On the other hand, viewers may be forgiven if they wonder occasionally why three full hours needed to be expended on a guy who is frequently referred to as ``a cold fish,'' on a man whose extramarital affair isn't even used as cannon fodder against him in a presidential campaign because it was figured that no one would believe him capable of such, on someone who said of himself, ``I am a vague, conjectural personality (lacking) human traits and red corpuscles. |
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