What happens to damaged red blood cells?

Basic Clinical Laboratory Techniques 6E
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Chapter2: Basic Hematology
Section2.9: White Blood Cell Differential Count
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What happens to damaged red blood cells?

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Blood is a fluid that flows through the body through the blood vessels.

The blood consists of various components like plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Of which the red blood cells that contain a protein called hemoglobin help in the transport of oxygen to all the tissues of the body, also they help in the transport of carbon dioxide away from the cell.

There are millions of red blood cells that circulate throughout the body, an abnormal change in the number of red blood cells can cause serious conditions like anemia and other diseases.

More about red blood cells are described as follows.

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