red corpuscles
Oxygen transport cells
Red corpuscles are red blood cells—the oxygen-carrying cells in blood that give it its color.
The term is somewhat old-fashioned in everyday speech, where *red blood cells* predominates, but remains current in medical and scientific contexts.
Also called erythrocytes.
- blood cellsCirculating microscopic body components
- cell membraneOuter layer of cytoplasm
- erythrocytesOxygen-carrying blood cells
- RBCOxygen-ferrying blood cell
- oxygenationAdding breathable gas
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red corpuscleswhite blood cells
Pathogen-fighting components of plasma
leukocytes · leucocytes · white cells · lymphocytes · neutrophils
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