Definition of Erythroblast

1. Noun. A nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop.

Generic synonyms: Embryonic Cell, Formative Cell
Specialized synonyms: Sideroblast

Definition of Erythroblast

1. Noun. (cytology) cell in the bone marrow from which red blood cells develop ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Erythroblast

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Erythroblast

1. Rather noncommittal name for a nucleated cell of the bone marrow that gives rise to erythrocytes. See: normoblasts, BFU E, CFU E, primitive and definitive erythroblasts This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erythroblast

erythric
erythrina
erythrine
erythrism
erythrismal
erythrisms
erythristic
erythrite
erythrites
erythritol
erythritols
erythrityl tetranitrate
erythro-
erythro-dihydrobiopterin triphosphate synthetase
erythroagglutinin
erythroblast (current term)
erythroblastemia
erythroblastic
erythroblastic anaemia
erythroblastopenia
erythroblastosis
erythroblastosis fetalis
erythroblastosis foetalis
erythroblastosis neonatorum
erythroblastotic
erythroblasts
erythrocatalysis
erythrocebus
erythrocebus patas
erythrochroic

Literary usage of Erythroblast

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

1. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1895)
"The process is something as follows: The small free erythroblast sends a prolongation of varying length through the endothelial wall from without toward the ..."

2. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1894)
"erythroblasts from marrow of rabbit, a, colourless erythroblast. b, coloured erythroblast, protoplasm very feebly tinted, e, the same, in mitosis. d, ..."

3. Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London by Epidemiological Society of London (1905)
"Ziemann also in his figures misses the flagellated form, though his figure of the peculiar way in which the erythroblast-nucleus is flattened out exactly ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"It was found that the erythroblast of the pig embryo in place of being spherical, as generally described, may in the later stages of ..."

5. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"This transformation from a marrow cell to an erythroblast does not take place by gradual changes going on in one cell, but makes its appearance more or less ..."

6. Folia Haematologica: Internationales Magazin für klinische und (1908)
"erythroblast erythroblast Alle diese Formen können in jedem Zustand des Zytoplasma, im jugendlich schmalen und ..."

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