Red Blood Cell
Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every part of the body.
The facts
- Shelf
- Tiny World
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play, in the Playground
Tap it to curl it into a sickle shape and back.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sickle and relax | Tap | ||
| Sickle | Button | ||
| Color | Color | #d8323f |
About it
Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every part of the body. Each is a soft disc, dented in on both sides, that bends to squeeze through the tiniest blood vessels. A mature human red blood cell has no nucleus and is packed with hemoglobin, the red protein that holds the oxygen.
Tap it and it sickles: it stretches and curls into a stiff crescent, then relaxes back into a disc. This happens in sickle cell disease, where a change in the hemoglobin makes cells stiffen when oxygen is low. The body makes millions of new red blood cells every second.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 320,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
