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Results 1 - 10 of 11 for Red blood cells
  1. ... to one part of the body or another. Red blood cells are an important element of blood. Their job ... they carry to the lungs to be expelled. Red blood cells are formed in the red bone marrow of ...
  2. Genetic and Chromosomal Conditions Video (March of Dimes Foundation)  
    ... eventually leads to death. Hemoglobinopathies. These conditions affect red blood cells in the body. Types of hemogloinopathies include: Thalassemias. ...
  3. ... the walls of the alveoli. Here you see red blood cells traveling through the capillaries. The walls of the ... system and the bloodstream. Oxygen molecules attach to red blood cells, which travel back to the heart. At the ...
  4. ... antigens circulate among the blood cells, which include red blood cells and white blood cells. White blood cells, such ...
  5. Health Videos: MedlinePlus Video (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... coronary angioplasty (PTCA) Peristalsis Phagocytosis Pituitary gland Preeclampsia Red blood cell production Retina Seeing Shoulder joint dislocation Smelling Snoring ...
  6. ... the capillary into surrounding tissue. Oxygen from the red blood cells, and nutrients in the fluid then diffuse into ...
  7. How Does Blood Clot? Video From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)  
    ... called a fibrin clot. The mesh also traps red blood cells to form a blood clot. The platelets contract ...
  8. ... a cut. Blood flowing past the cut includes red blood cells that carry oxygen, platelets that come from white ...
  9. ... injure the heart wall. In a healthy artery, red blood cells flow through unimpeded. But if the inner wall ...
  10. ... A little less than half is composed of red and white blood cells and other solid elements called platelets. Platelets cause ...
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