Abstract
Blood is an opaque red fluid consisting of the pale yellow plasma (called serum when the fibrinogen is removed) and the cells suspended in it - the red corpuscles (erythrocytes), the white corpuscles (leukocytes) and the platelets (thrombocytes). Blood has an important role in clinical diagnosis, because it is easy to collect and there are many diseases in which the blood composition and properties of the components are characteristically altered.
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Weiss, C., Jelkmann, W. (1989). Functions of the Blood. In: Schmidt, R.F., Thews, G. (eds) Human Physiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73831-9_18
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