Blood Cells; Going Deeper

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Well previously we had posted on the functions and components of the blood.. today we are going to go a bit deeper on structure and functions of the formed elements in our blood cells.

Formed elements of the blood

Lets recall..

Do still remember the components of our blood?? YES! The straw coloured liquid is plasma and it is 55% of our whole blood and Formed elements of blood consists of 45% of the whole blood.

So when you look into,

The formed element of the blood are the following:

1.       Red blood cells (erythrocytes)

2.       White blood cells (leukocytes) which are distinguished into two:

a)       Granular leukocytes (the WBC contain granules which can be seen under microscope after staining)

·       Neutrophils

·       Eosinophils

·       Basophils

b)      Agranular leukocytes ( the WBC with no granules under microscope after staining)

·       Lympocytes (t-cells,b-cells and natural killer)

·       Monocytes

3.       Platelets (thrombocytes)

Did you know??

Basically white blood cells does not contain haemoglobin thus they don’t have contain colour. We can only see them under microscope after staining them.

Besides red blood cells does not have nucleus. So they appear biconcave shape to hold heamoglobin.

Red blood cell with haemoglobin

Aren’t you now curious to know how does our blood cells look? Their structure? Their function??

Structure and function of blood cells

There you go.. the table summarizes on the structure of blood cells and its function! There is a clearer image on the white blood cells attached below.

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