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{{Short description|Cell produced by hematopoiesis}} {{Redirect|Hemocyte|the invertebrate immune cell|hemocyte (invertebrate immune system cell)}} [[File:Hematopoiesis simple.svg|thumb|400px|Diagram showing the development of different blood cells from [[hematopoietic stem cell]]s to mature cells.]] A '''blood cell''' (also called a '''hematopoietic cell''', '''hemocyte''', or '''hematocyte''') is a [[Cell (biology)|cell]] produced through [[hematopoiesis]] and found mainly in the [[blood]]. Major types of blood cells include [[red blood cell]]s (erythrocytes), [[white blood cell]]s (leukocytes), and [[platelet]]s (thrombocytes). Together, these three kinds of blood cells add up to a total 45% of the blood tissue by volume, with the remaining 55% of the volume composed of [[Blood plasma|plasma]], the liquid component of blood.<ref>{{cite book |last= Maton |first= Anthea |author2= Jean Hopkins |author3= Charles William McLaughlin |author4= Susan Johnson |author5= Maryanna Quon Warner |author6= David LaHart |author7= Jill D. Wright |title= Human Biology and Health |publisher= Prentice Hall| year= 1993| location= Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, US| url= https://archive.org/details/humanbiologyheal00scho| isbn= 0-13-981176-1| url-access= registration}}</ref>
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