red corpuscle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of red corpuscle
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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It is only because there are 280 million hemoglobin molecules in each red corpuscle that the blood has sufficient oxygen-carrying capacity for human respiration.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the slender person of James Franciscus, schoolteacher star of TV's Mr. Novak, Youngblood's red corpuscle count seems low.
From Time Magazine Archive
This red corpuscle was transmitted to us from the Stone Age, and the primordial pleasures alone resist enlightenment.
From Half a Rogue by MacGrath, Harold
It was about one-third the diameter of a red corpuscle of blood and its weight had been estimated as about .00685 milligrams, truly a fairy thread.
From Guy Garrick by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
It was all done on "stolen time," to use the phrase of Macaulay, and therefore vital, for things done because you have to do them—done to get rid of them—contain the red corpuscle.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Hubbard, Elbert
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