It is to the red corpuscles, or erythrocytes which number about 5,000,000 to the cubic millimeter of blood, that the color of the blood is due.
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Corpuscles
Synonyms for "corpuscles" (5 found)
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Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy (2023), 42:15 from the start, in Succession, season 4, episode 9: “The money, the corpuscles of life gushing around this nation, this world filling men and women all around with--with desire.”
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