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red blood cell

most common type of blood cell
Thing cell_type Q37187
red blood cell
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Summary

red blood cell is a cell type[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of cell type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,574 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Jan Swammerdam[3]
  • Subclass of: blood cell[4]
  • Part of: blood[5]
  • Commons category: Red blood cells[6]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1658[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Red blood cells[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10], Small Soviet Encyclopedia[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12]
  • Different from: red blood cell count[13]
  • Diameter: 7 micrometre[14]
  • Produced by: bone marrow[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]

Why It Matters

red blood cell has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 155 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Jan Swammerdam

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Q87327005. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Q87327005. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0368477-erytrocyty
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0368477-erytrocyty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947) +2
    Produced by → bone marrow
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 242, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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