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
It is equal to 1/1000 of a millimeter and is indicated by the symbol μ.8.The peculiar shape of the red corpuscle has no doubt some relation to its work.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
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
His love of justice no less than his love of his country aroused every red corpuscle in his virile personality to violent resentment against the invader.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
