white blood cell
 
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It is a kind of stem cell that's capable of forming various kinds of blood cells.
Infected blood cells can clump together and stick to the body's blood vessels, blocking blood flow to the brain.
Pregnant women require at least 27 mg of iron daily - a third more than usual - to supply baby's blood cells.
The AIDS virus makes copies of itself after it invades a human blood cell.

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Examples of blood cell

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The lysed cell suspension contains free parasites and red bloodcell membranes as well as parasites within the collapsed membrane of broken red cells.
In females (which bear the extra cost of ovary production), there is also a significant reduction in red bloodcell levels.
Only a decrease in neutrophil counts was observed, which might have been missed had only a white bloodcell count without the differential been performed.
Pericardial fluid was reviewed for red and white bloodcell count and content of glucose, protein and lactic dehydrogenose.
Inflammation, endothelial activation, red bloodcell membrane abnormalities and altered availability of vasoactive factors characterise this disorder.
The red bloodcell is held by suction at the end of the glass micropipette.
The 10 meta-analyses consisted of technologies to reduce the need for perioperative red bloodcell transfusion.
Interaction of hemoglobin with red bloodcell membranes as shown by a fluorescent chromophore.
There was no correlation between intestinal parasite infection and abnormal red bloodcell morphology or anaemia.
Babies had blood samples taken for culture and white bloodcell count within 24 hours of birth and prior to treatment with antibiotics.
In contrast to the adults,7'8 however, our newborn always had a normal total white bloodcell count during treatment.
This anaemia may be accentuated by reduction in red bloodcell lifespan, by hypersplenism and/or by low grade disseminated intravascular coagulation.
The anaemia of hypothyroidism is generally a mild, normocytic type but may be macrocytic, possibly due to a red bloodcell membrane cholesterol defect.
The per ipheral white bloodcell count was 13,800 mm 3 normal, 3800 to 9800 mm 3 !.
To test the significance of red bloodcell density in the absence of parasitism, a second analysis was conducted on uninfected mosquitoes only.
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