blood cell

Questions about blood cell

What does blood cell mean?

blood cell means "either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets".

What is another word for blood cell?

Close synonyms include blood corpuscle, corpuscle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blood cell a common word?

blood cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.