red corpuscle
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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 morning swims in the lagoon had thickened the red corpuscle.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
The shape of the red corpuscle is that of a circular disk with concave sides.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
From these layers it spreads through the rest of the liquid, being most retarded, however, in the red corpuscle layer, and particularly so if the sedimentation has been very complete.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
