Dr. Herrick described the patient's blood smear as showing "thin, sickle-shaped and crescent-shaped red cells."

Softwood trees produce very long, thin cells that pass liquids from one to another through small pits in their ends, which touch each other.

Squamous cells are the thin, flat cells that make up most of the epidermis.

Most oral cancers start in the lining of the lips or mouth in the thin, flat cells called squamous cells.

At maturity they are long, colourless, thin walled cells of small diameter, containing water but no living protoplasm.

Most hypopharyngeal cancers form in squamous cells, the thin, flat cells lining the inside of the hypopharynx.

They are long, thin, transparent cells, firmly packed, with diameters typically between 4-7 micrometres and lengths of up to 12 mm long.

In part this may be due to limitations inherent in a relatively large lateral growing out of a long thin cell.

Squamous cells are the thin, flat cells that line the inside of the oropharynx.

Most laryngeal cancers form in squamous cells, the thin, flat cells lining the inside of the larynx.