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Meanings of red blood corpuscle in English

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The most common type of blood cell in vertebrates which serves to deliver oxygen to the body tissues via the blood.

        Usage of red blood corpuscle in English
        1
        These germs are animal germs and are in the red blood corpuscles, feeding on them.
        A Handbook of Health
        2
        Besides these, the protoplasm contains a generally grayish homogeneous nucleus as large as one or two red blood corpuscles.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891
        3
        The white and red blood corpuscles can be distinguished, the red appearing as oval discs and the white as colorless spheres.
        Disease and Its Causes
        4
        By "body tissue in general" is understood the body with the total sum of its cells-especiallythe red blood corpuscles-andtheir various aggregations.
        Valere Aude: Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regen...