1.   It binds to haemoglobin much more readily than oxygen, thus allowing the blood to carry less oxygen.

2.   The blood test for anaemia checks the level of haemoglobin, which helps carry oxygen through the blood.

3.   The red blood cells carry oxygen.

4.   The red cells carry the oxygen.

5.   Blood is the medium in which oxygen is carried to all parts of the body.

6.   Although Hemopure and other blood substitutes do not replace red blood cells, they do carry oxygen when those cells are in short supply.

7.   Another tube carries oxygen to her nose.

8.   Because the normally round cells can carry less oxygen, they become crescent, or sickle-shaped.

9.   According to DeSimone, sickle cell disease starts with a defect in hemoglobin, the protein inside red blood cells that carries oxygen through the body.

10.   Breathing can become so difficult that Lamielle carries oxygen with her.