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Blood is more than a red liquid. It is a specialized connective tissue with a liquid matrix called plasma. Picture a microscopic river: plasma is the fluid, and different cellular components travel suspended within it.
Those components are erythrocytes, or red blood cells; leukocytes, or white blood cells; and thrombocytes, or platelets. Together, they make up blood tissue.
In brief
Blood is a specialized connective tissue whose cellular components are suspended in a liquid matrix. That liquid matrix keeps the cellular components in suspension as blood circulates.
Picture a liquid tissue with different kinds of cells traveling through it in suspension.
The liquid portion is plasma. Suspended within it are erythrocytes, or red blood cells; leukocytes, or white blood cells; and thrombocytes, or platelets.
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- National Center for Biotechnology InformationPhysiology, Blood PlasmaPublished
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