Definition of Megaloblasts

1. megaloblast [n] - See also: megaloblast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaloblasts

megalethoscopes
megalgia
megaliter
megaliters
megalith
megalithic
megalithic structure
megaliths
megalitre
megalitres
megalo-
megaloblast
megaloblastic
megaloblastic anaemia
megaloblastic anemia
megaloblasts (current term)
megalocardia
megalocardias
megalocheiria
megalocystis
megalocyte
megalocytes
megalocythemia
megalocytic anaemia
megalocytosis
megalodactylia
megalodon
megalodons

Literary usage of Megaloblasts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"The megaloblasts.—These are usually from two to three times as large as the ... The megaloblasts are provided with a relatively large centrally located ..."

2. A Text-book of Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods by Leonard Napoleon Boston (1905)
"The presence of megaloblasts in the blood may be regarded of serious ... megaloblasts appear in the blood of the severer forms of secondary anemia, ..."

3. A Guide to the clinical examination of the blood for diagnostic purposes by Richard Clarke Cabot (1904)
"The large, pale, delicately netted nucleus of the " megaloblasts " is simply a ... Luckily for us, most " megaloblasts " are larger than most "normoblasts " ..."

4. Case Teaching in Medicine: A Series of Graduated Exercises in the by Richard Clarke Cabot (1906)
"A differential count of 400 whites showed polymorphonuclear 72%, large mononuclear 12%, small mononuclear 15%, eosinophiles 1%. Ten megaloblasts, 5 ..."

5. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"These color changes affect not only the protoplasm, but the nucleus, as well, and are strongly emphasized in megaloblasts, the nuclei of which may show ..."

6. Histology of the Blood: Normal and Pathological by Paul Ehrlich, Adolf Lazarus, W. Myers, German Sims Woodhead (1900)
"The megaloblasts. These are 2—4 times as large as normal red blood corpuscles. Their protoplasm, which constitutes by far the chief portion of the body of ..."

7. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1906)
"The nucleated red cells consist of normoblasts, in greatest numbers, megaloblasts and naked pyknotic nuclei. With repeated doses of toxin the blood picture ..."

8. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum (1916)
"Ehrlich made the statement that the presence of megaloblasts in the hyperplastic bone-marrow was peculiar to pernicious anaemia and that it indicated a ..."

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