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A blood cell (also called blood corpuscle) is any cell of any type normally found in blood. In mammals, these fall into three general categories:

  • Platelet, which is actually a fragment of the large bone marrow cells known as megakaryocytes and are important in blood clotting.

Together, these three kinds of blood cells sum up for a total 45% of blood tissue (55% is plasma).

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