How to Use blood cell in a Sentence

blood cell

noun
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  • The healthy blood cells flowed through her body the way they were supposed to.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2018
  • What is the best way to fix faulty blood cells, and do so for the most people?
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
  • This leads to a reduction in platelets, the blood cells that help to clot the blood.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
  • So the mother’s stem cells can produce healthy blood cells for the child.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Platelets are blood cells that are needed in the clotting process.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 9 Sep. 2024
  • White blood cells are blood cells that are part of the immune system.
    — Steffini Stalos, Health, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In the other test, the team introduced rabbit blood cells to the bird blood.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Blockages caused by the misshapen blood cells can lead to severe pain and strokes.
    — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Blood type is determined by a gene that tells the body what blood cell proteins to make.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
  • Poinar speculates that the blood cells come from a monkey species.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2017
  • The pain led to the discovery of the clots, which occur when a mass of blood cells or other substances form in the blood vessels.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 5 July 2023
  • The first part of evaluating a blood cell count is to get a breakdown of the different types.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 12 May 2022
  • They were overcome by nausea as their blood cells were starved of oxygen.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2018
  • Jones was donating what’s known as platelets, tiny blood cells the body creates to clot and stop bleeding.
    — Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, al, 25 July 2019
  • The body creates too many abnormal white blood cells, which disrupts the body's healthy blood cells.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The first, called induction, is designed to kill leukemia cells in the blood and bone marrow and get blood cell counts back to normal.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The second theory has more to do with platelets, a type of blood cell that’s involved in clotting.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 12 Aug. 2020
  • One is that the blood cells may not last quite as long; evidence for this is conflicting.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Bone marrow is a soft, fatty tissue inside the center of the bones, where blood cells are made.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This summons platelets, a type of blood cell that begins to form clots, hindering blood flow to the organ.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Plasma is liquid blood once blood cells and platelets are removed.
    — Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The small-scale destruction of these blood cells could cause the bilirubin to go up and the haptoglobin go down, and could even give the runner a mild anemia.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • By focusing the laser on a single blood cell flowing through the capillary, the researchers could trap it and stop the flow of blood.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2013
  • The blood cells burst, causing fever, headache, chills, muscle aches, and often anemia.
    — Jop De Vrieze, Science | AAAS, 26 Nov. 2019
  • His team shines a laser through a thumbnail-size hole in the eggshell and measures fluorescent signals from the blood cells.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 14 Aug. 2019
  • They have been marked by low levels of platelets — the blood cell fragments that normally cause clotting.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 8 Apr. 2021
  • To chase the blood cell lead, Horner suggested that Schweitzer pursue her doctorate with him.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Smoking hastens the depletion of the Y chromosome in men’s blood cells, the researchers have found.
    — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • The virus sits in throat and blood cells, maybe flaring up as mononucleosis or a bout of lethargy, or with no symptoms at all.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Leukemia is a deadly cancer that affects the production and function of blood cells.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023

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