NOUN
- either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
How To Use blood corpuscle In A Sentence
- In this we have ample cause for the attending train of symptoms that, beginning with drowsiness, rapidly passes into stupor followed by profound coma and ultimate dissolution -- marked evidence of the fact that a chemical agent or poison may produce a mechanical disease; and autopsical research reveals absolutely nothing save the general disorganization of blood corpuscles, as already noted. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
- In order that these syntheses might make their appearance in the excided kidney, the presence of the blood corpuscles was not necessary, though, indeed, the presence of oxygen in the blood was indispensable. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
- Large rounded cells, termed splenic cells, are also seen; these are capable of ameboid movement, and often contain pigment and red-blood corpuscles in their interior. XI. Splanchnology. 4g. The Spleen
- That is to say that it has been shown that from the moment malaria blood leaves the human body, the malaria parasites deviate from the normal course of development; they leave the red blood corpuscles and assume gametic forms. Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Nobel Lecture
- But the result of the treatment can affect the blood corpuscles and may even cause death.
- And even now, about all we know is that autopsical research reveals absolutely nothing but the general disorganisation of the blood corpuscles. The Dream Doctor
- By means of these simple packs followed by cold ablutions, the temperature of the patient can be kept at any point desired without the use of poisonous antifever medicines, serums and antitoxins which lower the temperature by benumbing and paralyzing heart action, respiration, the red and white blood corpuscles, and thus generally lowering the vital activities of the organism. Nature Cure
- There was absolutely no way to cure it and the ill persons didn't show the distinct signs of the other kinds - no overproduction of white blood corpuscles, no attacks of high fever and no spleen tumors at all.
- In this manner he studied the metabolism of sea-urchin eggs, blood corpuscles, and various bacteria and especially the respiratory processes of nitrifying bacteria. Otto Meyerhof - Biography
- Laveran showed that the parasites, during their development in the red blood corpuscles, destroy them; and the red pigment in the corpuscles is changed into the melanin particles mentioned above. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech
