title: On erythrocyte morphology.
abstract: The significance of the distinctive morphological difference between mammalian and non-mammalian vertebrate erythrocytes (disc versus ellipse) is discussed in the light of mammalian erythrocyte rheology.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002162:Camelus; D004612:Elliptocytosis, Hereditary / Q000097:blood; D004907:Erythrocyte Deformability; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000166:cytology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D012212:Rheology