 This function is entirely dependent upon the presence of hemoglobin, which has the power of combining easily with oxygen gas. The physiology of the red corpuscles, therefore, is largely contained in a description of the properties of hemoglobin.  Physiology and Hygiene - Page 93by Charles Phillips Emerson - 1922 - 355 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 752 pages
...oxygen contained in the blood in combination with the haemoglobin. Speaking generally, the function of the red corpuscles is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. This function is entirely dependent upon the presence of haemoglobin, which has the power... | |
 | William Henry Howell - Physiology - 1900 - 654 pages
...oxygen contained in the blood in combination with the haemoglobin. Shaking generally, the function of the red corpuscles is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. This function is entirely dependent upon the presence of haemoglobin, which has the power... | |
 | William Henry Howell - 1905 - 968 pages
...oxygen contained in the blood in combination with the hemoglobin. Speaking generally, the function of the red corpuscles is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. This function is entirely dependent upon the presence of hemoglobin, which has the power of... | |
 | William Henry Howell - Human physiology - 1905 - 954 pages
...oxygen contained in the blood in combination with the hemoglobin. Speaking generally, the function of the red corpuscles is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. This function is entirely dependent upon the presence of hemoglobin, which has the power of... | |
 | William Henry Howell - Human physiology - 1910 - 1046 pages
...oxygen contained in the blood in combination with the hemoglobin. Speaking generally, the function of the red corpuscles is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. This function is entirely dependent upon the presence of hemoglobin, which has the power of... | |
 | Medical record - 1912 - 890 pages
...about 7,000 to 10,000 or 12,000 white corpuscles in each cubic millimeter of blood. (c) The function of the red corpuscles is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. Function of the white corpuscles: (i) To serve as a protection to the body from the incursions... | |
 | William Henry Snyder - Science - 1914 - 508 pages
...power ot moveo ° ^° ment and even of working their way out of the blood vessels. The main function of the red corpuscles is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the different living cells of the body. They contain a pigment, haemoglobin, which carries the oxygen and gives the... | |
 | Edward Baldwin Gleason - 1914 - 612 pages
...erythrocytes, white cells or leukocytes, blood-plaques, and hemoconia or blood dust. The chief function of the red corpuscles is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. In health their number varies from 4,500,000 to 5,000,000 to the cubic millimeter, and the... | |
 | Mark Beck - Health & Fitness - 1999 - 794 pages
...concave disc-shaped cells colored with a substance called hemoglobin (hee-mow-GLOW-bin). The function of the red corpuscles is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the body cells and transport carbon dioxide from the cells to the lungs. The red blood cells are confined... | |
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