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The disease changes white blood cells into cancer cells and builds up in the bone marrow, the spongy material inside the bones where blood cells are made, according to the Mayo Clinic.
—Esther Kang, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Its vitamin B12 supports your nerves and blood cells.
—Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
National Geographic harnesses some of that tendency in this kit that contains instructions and equipment for 15 different gross experiments with themes like boiling boogers, farting slime, bursting blood cells, eyeballs, and test-tube vomit.
—Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
The treatment involves isolating a patient’s T cells—the sentries of the immune system that strike invaders—and engineering them in a lab to destroy blood cells called B cells that have become cancerous.
—Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 14 Nov. 2024
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First Known Use
1834, in the meaning defined above
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“Blood cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20cell. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
blood cell
noun
: a cell normally present in blood
Medical Definition
blood cell
noun
: a cell or platelet normally present in blood see red blood cell, white blood cell
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