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cell

(Enemy combatants), noun enemy group, exxremist group, rebel organization, saboteurs, subversives, unnerground extremists
Associated concepts: enemy combatants, justice courts, miliiary tribunals, Patriotic Act, prison cells, sleeper cell, terrorist cell

cell

(jail), noun cage, cella, chamber, compartment, confined room, confinement, cubicle, cubiculum, enclosed cage, incarceration, jailhouse, penitentiary, pound, prison, prison house, small cavity, small room, solitary abode

See also: chamber, jail, penitentiary, prison

CELL. A small room in a prison. See Dungeon.

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Douglas "Improved red blood cell counting in thin blood smears" IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro pp.

ACCURATE RED BLOOD CELLS AUTOMATIC COUNTING IN MICROSCOPIC THIN BLOOD SMEAR DIGITAL IMAGES

The grade is determined for hyposegmentation, by the percentage of neutrophils with bilobed and unilobed nuclei; for hypogranularity, by the number of hypogranular cells as a percentage of all granulocytes; for cytoplasmic fragments and hypogranular platelets, as a percentage of the sum of all platelets and cytoplasmic fragments; and for smudge cells, based on smudge cells as a percentage of all white blood cells.

Blood cell morphology: grading guide

Meanwhile, your bone marrow churns out 100 million new red blood cells a minute to replace the cells you've lost.

FAKE BLOOD Ready to Flow

As simple strands unattached to red blood cells, they might model other common biological machines, hairlike cilia.

Artificial animalcules: in the microscopic realm, machines learn to swim

A protein found on red blood cells in sickle-cell disease binds these cells to blood vessel walls, disrupting circulation, a new study suggests.