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red corpuscle



NOUN
red blood cell
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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

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.

His love of justice no less than his love of his country aroused every red corpuscle in his virile personality to violent resentment against the invader.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

The red corpuscle contains a very minute, roundish body which is stained blue to bring it into view.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry