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Blood cell
Blood cell refers to any type of cell normally found in blood. In mammals, these fall into three general categories:
- red blood cells, whose main purpose is the transport of oxygen
- white blood cells, which act as immune cells and fight infection
- Platelets, which are actually fragments of the large bone marrow cells known as megakaryocytes[?] and are important in blood clotting
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