blood cell

English

Alternative forms

• blood-cell

Noun

blood cell (plural blood cells)

1. (hematology, cytology) Any of the cells normally found in blood, namely erythrocytes and leukocytes, sometimes including the platelets.

Synonyms

• blood corpuscle
• hemocyte

 

Hyponyms

• erythrocyte
• leucocyte
• leukocyte
• platelet
• RBC
• red blood cell
• WBC
• white blood cell

 

Translations

any of the cells normally found in the blood

• Arabic: خَلِيَّة دَم f (ḵaliyyat dam), خَلِيَّة دَمَوِيَّة f (ḵaliyya damawiyya)
• Bulgarian: кръ́вно телце́ n (krǎ́vno telcé)
• Catalan: cèl·lula sanguínia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血細胞／血细胞 (zh) (xuèxìbāo), 血球 (zh) (xuèqiú)

• Czech: krvinka (cs) f
• Danish: blodcelle (da) c, blodlegeme (da) n
• Dutch: bloedcel (nl) m or f
• Faroese: blóðkorn n, blóðkroppur m
• Finnish: verisolu
• French: cellule sanguine f, globule (fr) f
• German: Blutkörperchen (de) n
• Hungarian: vérsejt (hu), vértest (hu)
• Icelandic: blóðkorn (is) n, blóðfruma (is) f
• Irish: fuilchill f, cill fola f, coirpín fola m, fuilchoirpín m
• Japanese: 血球 (ja) (けっきゅう, kekkyū)
• Korean: 혈구(血球) (ko) (hyeolgu)
• Maori: pūtau toto
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blodcelle m or f, blodlegeme n

  Nynorsk: blodlekam m

• Polish: krwinka (pl) f
• Portuguese: célula sanguínea f
• Russian: кровяна́я кле́тка f (krovjanája klétka), гематоци́т m (gematocít)
• Serbo-Croatian: krvna ćelija f, krvna stanica f
• Slovak: krvinka
• Slovene: krvnička f
• Spanish: glóbulo (es) m
• Swahili: seli ya damu
• Swedish: blodkropp (sv) c
• Telugu: రక్తకణము (raktakaṇamu)
• Ukrainian: кров'яне́ тільце́ n (krovʺjané tilʹcé)
• Vietnamese: tế bào máu
• Welsh: cell waed m