Blood cell
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A blood cell is a cell produced through hematopoiesis and found mainly in the blood. Major types of blood cells include red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Together, these three kinds o
Diagram showing the development of different blood cells from hematopoietic stem cells to mature cells.
The darker red blood syringes have deoxygenated blood, whereas the brighter red have oxygenated blood.
Artificially colored electron micrograph of blood cells. From left to right: erythrocyte, thrombocyte, leukocyte.
Blood plasma
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Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55%
Blood cell
…Together, these three kinds of blood cells add up to a total 45% of the blood tissue by volume, with the remaining 55% of the volume composed of plasma, the liquid component of blood. Blood cells with differentiation potential are called hematopoietic cells; the ones with the most such potential are…
A unit of donated fresh plasma
Bags of frozen plasma, from a person with hypercholesterolemia (left) and typical plasma (right)
Private Roy W. Humphrey is being given blood plasma after he was wounded by shrapnel in Sicily in August 1943.
Dried plasma packages used by the British and US militaries during WWII