red blood cell
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3.1
- noun
- /rɛd blʌd sɛl/
- Specialized
:
glóbulo rojo
- The body relies on red blood cells to transport oxygen to all its tissues.
- red blood cell transfusions
- red blood cells carry oxygen
- human red blood cells
Now if we take one milliliter of blood, we find a few billion red blood cells inside it.
- Now if we take one milliliter of blood, we find a few billion red blood cells inside it.
- He says, look, my body has to produce red blood cells or I'll die.
- And that's how you get the boost of oxygen carrying red blood cells, etcetera.
- To do this, chemical reactions take place within the red blood cells and this draws in water from the blood plasma, making the red blood cells slightly bigger.
- And when there are more red blood cells, your blood becomes thicker.
- So my body produces red blood cells, and if it stops producing red blood cells, I would die.
- What that means is the muscles are releasing metabolites as not just from the muscle but from the blood vessels and from the red blood cells themselves.
- There's also a magnesium RBC test, stands for red blood cell test.
Examples
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"Red blood cells carry oxygen through your blood.
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During pregnancy, iron requirements increase to meet the demands of increased red blood cells, the growing fetus, and the placenta.
Academic text (2012) -
And they also help with red blood cell production as well.
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Is it his white blood cells or his red blood cells?
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This is very, very important for your blood, your red blood cells to function properly.
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So my body produces red blood cells, and if it stops producing red blood cells, I would die.
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And when there are more red blood cells, your blood becomes thicker.
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"More than 10 million red blood cells are in a drop of blood the size of a raindrop.
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We generally think of blood as a red liquid, but it's actually full of particles like red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
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When you go to altitude, the body produces more red blood cells and what you have going around your blood is this red sludge.
Synonyms
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8.1
A red blood cell that carries oxygen to body tissues
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3.7
A blood cell that carries oxygen to body tissues
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from the constituents: 'red' (color) + 'blood' (the fluid) + 'cell' (a microscopic unit) yields a blood cell that is red and carries oxygen. This straightforward noun-compound pattern is cross-linguistically common and uses high-frequency, concrete words, so a B1 learner who knows the parts can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Red blood cell is a simple name: it pictures a small cell in the blood that looks red because it has a red part called 'hemoglobin' that holds oxygen. So the name tells you both its color and its job, which is why we use it for the cells in blood that carry oxygen around the body.