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erythrocyte

[ih-rith-ruh-sahyt] / ɪˈrɪθ rəˌsaɪt /


NOUN
red blood cell
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When EPO stimulates the production of erythrocytes, iron is released from storage, bound to transferrin, and carried to the red marrow where it attaches to erythrocyte precursors.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

And although there is just one type of erythrocyte, there are many types of leukocytes.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The erythrocyte lifecycle is summarized in Figure 18.8.

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As the erythrocyte clumps are degraded, in a process called hemolysis, their hemoglobin is released into the bloodstream.

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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.