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red corpuscle

American  

noun

  1. a red blood cell.


red corpuscle British  

noun

  1. another name for erythrocyte

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of red corpuscle

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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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