Phrase guide

blood cell

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • General-American: /ˈblʌd ˌsɛl/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of the cells normally found in blood, namely erythrocytes and leukocytes, sometimes including the platelets.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, cytology, hematology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blood corpuscle, corpuscle

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: somatic cell, vegetative cell

Narrower terms: leukocyte, leucocyte, white blood cell, white cell, white blood corpuscle, white corpuscle, WBC, packed cells, red blood cell, RBC, erythrocyte

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خَلِيَّة دَم (ḵaliyyat dam) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Arabic: خَلِيَّة دَمَوِيَّة (ḵaliyya damawiyya) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Bulgarian: кръ́вно телце́ (krǎ́vno telcé) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Catalan: cèl·lula sanguínia — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Chinese Mandarin: 血細胞 /血细胞 (xuèxìbāo) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Chinese Mandarin: 血球 (xuèqiú) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Czech: krvinka — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Danish: blodcelle — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Danish: blodlegeme — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Dutch: bloedcel — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Faroese: blóðkorn — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Faroese: blóðkroppur — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Finnish: verisolu — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • French: cellule sanguine — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • French: globule — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • German: Blutkörperchen — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Hindi: रक्त कोशिका (rakt kośikā) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Hungarian: vérsejt — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Hungarian: vértest — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Icelandic: blóðkorn — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Icelandic: blóðfruma — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Irish: fuilchill — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Irish: cill fola — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Irish: coirpín fola — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Irish: fuilchoirpín — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Japanese: 血球 (kekkyū) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Korean: 혈구 (hyeolgu) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Māori: pūtau toto — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blodcelle — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blodlegeme — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: blodlekam — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Polish: krwinka — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Portuguese: célula sanguínea — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Russian: кровяна́я кле́тка (krovjanája klétka) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Russian: гематоци́т (gematocít) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Serbo-Croatian: krvna ćelija — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Serbo-Croatian: krvna stanica — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Slovak: krvinka — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Slovene: krvnička — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Spanish: glóbulo — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Swahili: seli ya damu — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Swedish: blodkropp — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Telugu: రక్తకణము (raktakaṇamu) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Ukrainian: кров'яне́ тільце́ (krovʺjané tilʹcé) — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Vietnamese: tế bào máu — any of the cells normally found in the blood
  • Welsh: cell waed — any of the cells normally found in the blood