Table 2.
Measured major and minor axes of red blood cells in histological sections.
| RBC | Slice 1 | Slice 2L | Slice 2R | Slice 3L | Slice 3R | Slice 4 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | b | a | b | a | b | a | b | a | b | a | b | |
| 1 | 7.3 | 2.8 | 5.9 | 2.3 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 7.8 | 3.3 | 5.4 | 2.8 | 7.0 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 8.7 | 3.6 | 6.6 | 2.2 | – | – | – | – | 7.0 | 3.9 |
| 3 | 7.4 | 2.1 | 7.7 | 3.7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6.5 | 3.8 |
| 4 | 7.5 | 3.3 | 8.1 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6.9 | 2.6 |
| 5 | – | – | 8.3 | 3.0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6.1 | 3.7 |
| 6 | – | – | 7.1 | 2.9 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 7 | – | – | 8.3 | 3.0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8 | – | – | 8.4 | 3.2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 9 | – | – | 9.0 | 3.9 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Mean ± SD | a, 7.4 ± 0.9; b, 3.0 ± 0.6 | |||||||||||
RBC, red blood cell; Slice, histological slice in Fig. 2; L (R), blood vessel on the left (right) side; a, major axis in μm; b, minor axis in μm.