erythrocyte

(ə′rith·rə′sīt)

(histology) A type of blood cell that contains a nucleus in all vertebrates but humans and that has hemoglobin in the cytoplasm. Also known as red blood cell.

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Blood cell that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. Hemoglobin gives the cell — and whole blood — its colour. Red cells are small, round, flexible, and concave on both sides and lack a nucleus. They develop continuously in bone marrow in several stages and are stored in the spleen. The mature form lives 100 – 120 days. Adult human blood has about 5.2 million red cells per cu mm. Some conditions change their shape (e.g., pernicious anemia, sickle-cell anemia) or number (e.g., anemia, polycythemia).

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(ər-ith′rō-sīt)
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Red blood cell; a nonnucleated, circular, biconcave, discoid, hemoglobin-containing, oxygen-carrying formed element circulating in the blood.

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1. pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of erythrocytes.
2. pertaining to the erythrocytic series.

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