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
The anaemia accompanying the disease is due partly to the leucocyte overgrowth, which takes up the space in the marrow belonging of right to red corpuscle formation and interferes with it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
The faint staining of a red corpuscle cannot be explained, as E. Grawitz assumes, by a diminished affinity of the hæmoglobin for the dye.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
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