English noun: erythrocyte | |||
1. | erythrocyte (body) a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus | ||
Synonyms | RBC, red blood cell | ||
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 | ||