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no. Blood cells are only formed in bone marrow. Flat bones do not have bone marrow.

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Q: Do flat bones produce red blood cells?
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What produces stores and eliminates the red blood cells?

bone barrow (mostly of flat bones such as the hip and ribs) produce the cells. some are stored and eliminated in the spleen.


Does your liver produce red blood cells in case of adults?

In case of the fetus, liver produces red blood cells. Red blood cells are produced by flat bones in case of adults. Given a challenge to produce the extra red blood cells, the liver may start producing red blood cells in adults also, as a last resort.


Blood cells are formed in the what?

Your red blood cells are produced in flat bones. You have the skull bone, vertebrae, iliac bones, ribs, sternum and the scapula. They have got red bone marrow. You have red bone marrow in long bones of the children, along with the flat bones. In the early intrauterine life the liver produce the red blood cells. When challenged the long bones can produce the red blood cells in adults. Even the liver can start producing the red blood cells, eventually.


What is the major producer of blood cells?

Your red bone marrow, in flat bones is the major producer of blood cells in the adult.


What part of the bone is hematopoietic tissue located?

In the few flat bone you have red bone marrow. It contains the precursor cells of the haemopoietic tissue. They produce the red blood cells.


What human bones make red blood cells?

Flat bones. Like sternum, skull bones, part of the hip bone like ileum.


Which is the process that occurs in the red marrow of long or flat bones by which all blood cells are formed?

hematopoiesis


What manufactures the most blood cells?

Red blood cells are made in the bone marrow.


Which body system is the source of all blood cells?

The circulatory system carries blood cells which are produced mainly by red marrow found in the flat bones, such as the pelvic bones, sternum, ribs, skull vertebrae, and long bones: femur, humerus etc


What type of bone is the skull?

The skull is composed of the cranium and the facial bones. They are like all the other bones of the body, except they do not produce blood cells, like long bones and short bones.The cranial bones are flat bones such as the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital bones. The facial bones are considered irregular-shaped bones and consist of; sphenoidal, lacrimal, and a few others.


In adults erythropoiesis occurs in?

The production of red blood cells takes place in the bone marrow.


Which blood cells are made inside certain bones in your body?

New red blood cells are formed by the red bone marrow located in the spongy bone in a process called hemopoesis. I hope that helps :-)