Your veins carry the blood to all parts of our body. Your red cells have many jobs in order for your body to survive. For every one white blood cell there is about 700 red blood cells. Although there are very few white cells, they play a very important part in the body. Leukocytes is another name for white blood cells.
White cells have many shapes and sizes.
They are divided into various categories such as lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes. Although they are divided, they all work together as one. When you have a cut that gets infected your white blood cells go to the cut and fight the infection. Also when you get an infection in your bloodstream the white cells fight that too. A nomal white blood cell count for both men and women ranges from 5,000 to 10,000.