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.
Blood is a bodily fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.he blood cells are mainly red blood cells (also called RBCs or erythrocytes), white blood cells (also called WBCs or leukocytes) and platelets. The most abundant cells in vertebrate blood are red blood cells.