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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

血细胞

Pronunciation / Transliteration: xiě xìbāo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Blood-corpuscle/ˈblʌd ˌkɔːr.pʌs.əl/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"血细胞包括红细胞和白细胞。"

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A cell contained in the blood, such as a red blood cell (erythrocyte) or white blood cell (leukocyte).

    "Under the microscope, the analyst examined the different types of blood-corpuscles to check for abnormalities."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines the Old English 'blōd' (from Proto-Germanic *blōdą, meaning blood or flowing gore) with the Late Middle English 'corpuscle', derived from the Latin 'corpusculum', a diminutive of 'corpus' meaning body. Formed in the 19th century as medical and biological terminology expanded to classify microscopic constituents of living tissue.

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