biconcave
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This batch provided an answer: He had hereditary spherocytosis, a disease in which the red blood cells were tiny spheres rather than the usual biconcave discs.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
In mammals, red blood cells are small biconcave cells that at maturity do not contain a nucleus or mitochondria and are only 7–8 µm in size.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
They are compact, flexible and shaped like biconcave disks, which helps them slip through narrow capillaries and gives them a high volume-to-surface area ration, so they can hold a lot of hemoglobin and oxygen.
From Scientific American ● May 6, 2019
The viewer observes Mr. Jacobs’s teeming green worlds through a custom-ordered biconcave lens.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2018
In the mammal they are biconcave disks with bevelled edges, they do not contain a nucleus so that they are not cells.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
