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noun

any of the cellular elements of the blood, as white blood cells or red blood cells.

Also called blood corpuscle.

Origin:
1840–50

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blood cell

—n
	erythrocyte See leucocyte any of the cells that circulate in the blood

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Medical Dictionary

blood cell n.
Any of the cells contained in blood; an erythrocyte or leukocyte; a blood corpuscle.

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Science Dictionary

blood cell
A red blood cell or white blood cell that is contained in the blood.

Example sentences

All it would take is for a single spore, barely bigger than a red blood cell,

to latch onto the shirt of an oblivious traveler.

It would be easier to turn this converted stem cell back into a blood cell

than, say, a brain cell.

And erythropoietin can pump blood cell levels so high the blood turns viscous

and strains the heart.

Reticulocytes are immature red blood cells, and their count reflects the rate

of red blood cell production.

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"I am more and more convinced that the ant colony is not so much composed of separate individuals as that the colony is a sort of individual, and each ant like a loose cell in it. Our own blood stream, for instance, contains hosts of white corpuscles which differ little from free-swimming amoebae. When bacteria invade the blood stream, the white corpuscles, like the ants defending the nest, are drawn mechanically to the infected spot, and will die defending the human cell colony. I admit that the comparison is imperfect, but the attempt to liken the individual human warrior to the individual ant in battle is even more inaccurate and misleading. The colony of ants with its component numbers stands half way, as a mechanical, intuitive, and psychical phenomenon, between our bodies as a collection of cells with separate functions and our armies made up of obedient privates. Until one learns both to deny real individual initiative to the single ant, and at the same time to divorce one's mind from the persuasion that the colony has a headquarters which directs activity ... one can make nothing but pretty fallacies out of the polity of the ant heap."

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