erythrocyte
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- erythrocytic adjective
Etymology
Origin of erythrocyte
Example Sentences
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Your summary has revealed some similarities and differences among vertebrate erythrocyte and circulatory system structures.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
As the erythrocyte clumps are degraded, in a process called hemolysis, their hemoglobin is released into the bloodstream.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
This patient can theoretically receive any type of blood, because the patient’s own blood—having both A and B antigens on the erythrocyte surface—does not produce anti-A or anti-B antibodies.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
During the first day or two that it is in the circulation, an immature erythrocyte, known as a reticulocyte, will still typically contain remnants of organelles.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
M. B. Schmidt without making use of the principal distinction made by Ehrlich, also concludes from his researches on sections of the bone-marrow of animals in extra-uterine life, that both kinds of erythrocyte formation occur.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
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