biconcave
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This batch provided an answer: He had hereditary spherocytosis, a disease in which the red blood cells were tiny spheres rather than the usual biconcave discs.
From New York Times • May 16, 2023
In mammals, red blood cells are small biconcave cells that at maturity do not contain a nucleus or mitochondria and are only 7–8 µm in size.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
They are compact, flexible and shaped like biconcave disks, which helps them slip through narrow capillaries and gives them a high volume-to-surface area ration, so they can hold a lot of hemoglobin and oxygen.
From Scientific American • May 6, 2019
The viewer observes Mr. Jacobs’s teeming green worlds through a custom-ordered biconcave lens.
From New York Times • May 8, 2018
The red globules appeared cleanly circular, flattened, biconcave, and without notches, indentations or spheroidal swellings.
From The Man With The Broken Ear by Holt, Henry
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