Blood Corpuscle (Noun)
Meaning
Either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- A complete blood count is a medical test that counts the different types of blood corpuscles, such as erythrocytes and leukocytes.
- A lack of blood corpuscles in the blood can cause symptoms like anemia, weakness, and pale skin.
- A biopsy report usually describes the microscopic examination of a sample and indicates if the cells found in it include cancerous blood corpuscles.
- Stem cells differentiate to become either blood corpuscles, blood clotting components or sometimes stem cells continue dividing in cell lines and circulate the entire lifetime of a multicellular organism.
- Various mechanisms by which tumors inhibit normal cellular activities by cancer cells directly generating malformed and maladaptive changes within specific areas which modify non-blood corpuscles (kidney filtration efficiency impacted with stents & cardiac functions) and peripheral circulatory roles of erythrocytes impacted local targeted tumor growth