How to Use blood cell in a Sentence

blood cell

noun
  • The healthy blood cells flowed through her body the way they were supposed to.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2018
  • What is the best way to fix faulty blood cells, and do so for the most people?
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
  • Platelets are blood cells that are needed in the clotting process.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 9 Sep. 2024
  • White blood cells are blood cells that are part of the immune system.
    — Steffini Stalos, Health, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Folate is needed for healthy blood cells.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • So the mother’s stem cells can produce healthy blood cells for the child.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • This leads to a reduction in platelets, the blood cells that help to clot the blood.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The leukemia cells choke out the other blood cells, Patt explains.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 14 Oct. 2025
  • They were overcome by nausea as their blood cells were starved of oxygen.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2018
  • Poinar speculates that the blood cells come from a monkey species.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2017
  • Plasma is liquid blood once blood cells and platelets are removed.
    — Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Blood culture tests showed clumps of some kind of bacteria among his blood cells.
    — Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Blockages caused by the misshapen blood cells can lead to severe pain and strokes.
    — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Blood type is determined by a gene that tells the body what blood cell proteins to make.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
  • In the other test, the team introduced rabbit blood cells to the bird blood.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Stem cells can also be reverse-engineered in labs from adult skin or blood cells.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 3 May 2026
  • One is that the blood cells may not last quite as long; evidence for this is conflicting.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Red bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside bones that produces all types of blood cells.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Leukemia begins in the bone marrow, the tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made.
    — Kaley Fedko, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • The body creates too many abnormal white blood cells, which disrupts the body's healthy blood cells.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Jones was donating what’s known as platelets, tiny blood cells the body creates to clot and stop bleeding.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al, 25 July 2019
  • The blood cells burst, causing fever, headache, chills, muscle aches, and often anemia.
    — Jop De Vrieze, Science | AAAS, 26 Nov. 2019
  • As a child develops, the tissues grow and the number of blood cells expand.
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
  • It was supposed to do general chemistry assays and blood cell counts, etc.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 June 2018
  • Both groups possessed some blood cells with changes to a gene associated with leukemia.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Bone marrow is a soft, fatty tissue inside the center of the bones, where blood cells are made.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Then, blood was collected and the stem cells separated from the blood cells.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The second theory has more to do with platelets, a type of blood cell that’s involved in clotting.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The beta-glucan found in oats helps boost our infection-fighting blood cells.
    — Good Housekeeping, 15 Oct. 2018
  • They have been marked by low levels of platelets — the blood cell fragments that normally cause clotting.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 8 Apr. 2021

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