Petechiae are tiny red, purple, or brown spots on your skin, inside of your mouth, or on your eyelids. These sports develop when capillaries ... drugs prevent blood cells from sticking together ...

These rods cause a person's red blood cells to take on a deformed ... and they also tend to clog capillaries, causing an affected person's blood supply to be cut off to various tissues, including ...

Red blood cells for example, have no nucleus, so they can hold more oxygen. They're also biconcave or disc-shaped to absorb oxygen more quickly and rounded to flow easily through tiny capillaries.

The transfer of oxygen takes place in the narrow blood vessels called capillaries. These may be no more than the width of a red blood cell. In people with usual haemoglobin A, the red blood cells ...

Contrary to what you likely learned in school, ferrying oxygen isn’t the only function of red blood cells. In a study published today (October 20) in Science Translational Medicine, researchers show ...

The abnormally shaped cells can build up in capillaries and veins ... Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia. Archives of Internal Medicine 6 ...