Asteroids are celestial rocky bodies that orbit the sun. It was Sir William Herschel who first coined the term âasteroidâ (Greek for star-like) in 1802. He thought that Ceres and Pallas, discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi and Heinrich Olbers respectively, were too small and were remnants of a destroyed planet.
blood cell. n. Any of the cells contained in blood; an erythrocyte or leukocyte; a blood corpuscle. blood cell. n. (Physiology) any of the cells that circulate in the blood. See erythrocyte, leucocyte.
A blood cell, also called a hematocyte, is a cell produced by hematopoiesis and is normally found in blood. In mammals, these fall into three general categories:1  Red blood cells â Erythrocytes. 2  White blood cells â Leukocytes. 3  Platelets â Thrombocytes.hite blood cells are cells of the immune system involved in defending the body against both infectious disease and foreign materials. Five diverse types of leukocytes exist, but they are all produced and derived from multipotent cells in the bone marrow known as a hematopoietic stem cells.