Either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets.
1On blood corpuscles, see 'Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science,' April 1874, p.
2His bones were hollow, since he needed no marrow for producing blood corpuscles.
3The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles.
4On each side of the large ducts is a vein filled with blood corpuscles.
5These germs are animal germs and are in the red blood corpuscles, feeding on them.
6So is the microscopic examination for blood corpuscles.
7Some of the white blood corpuscles escape from the blood-vessels through the thin walls of the capillaries.
8The same thing seemed to be true of certain cells of higher organisms, as the blood corpuscles.
9Opsonin is what you butter the disease germs with to make your white blood corpuscles eat them.
10Besides these, the protoplasm contains a generally grayish homogeneous nucleus as large as one or two red blood corpuscles.
11Leukaemia is a disease marked by an excessive and permanent increase in the white blood corpuscles and consequent progressive anæmia.
12The white and red blood corpuscles can be distinguished, the red appearing as oval discs and the white as colorless spheres.
132.-AmœboidMovement of a Human White Blood Corpuscle.
14The red color is due to the union of oxygen with the iron in the blood corpuscles, forming rust, roughly speaking.
15And even now, about all we know is that autopsical research reveals absolutely nothing but the general disorganisation of the blood corpuscles.
16Blood counts before and after a cold-water application show a very marked increase in the number of red and white blood corpuscles.
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