English noun: red blood cell | |||
| 1. | red blood cell (body) a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus | ||
| Synonyms | erythrocyte, RBC | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | acanthocyte, macrocyte, megaloblast, megalocyte, microcyte, reticulocyte, sickle cell, siderocyte, spherocyte, target cell | ||
| Substance holonym | haemoglobin, Hb, hemoglobin | ||