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Definition of Megaloblast
1. Noun. Abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency.
Definition of Megaloblast
1. Noun. An abnormally large red blood cell associated with pernicious anemia and with folic acid deficiency ¹
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Definition of Megaloblast
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Medical Definition of Megaloblast
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaloblast
Literary usage of Megaloblast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical and Microscopical Diagnosis by Francis Carter Wood (1909)
"Orthochromatic megaloblast with well-marked chromatin network in the ...
Polychromatic megaloblast. Cell body undergoing solution in the blood plasma. 27. ..."
2. A Guide to the Clinical Examination of the Blood for Diagnostic Purposes by Richard Clarke Cabot (1897)
"Cells like a megaloblast, but having a dark nucleus instead of a light one. 8.
... For instance, a megaloblast is a cell considerably larger than a ..."
3. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"In all reports of blood cases it is necessary to know the writer's definition of
a megaloblast, for opinions vary much. Some demand a large cell, ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1908)
"Sometimes prolonged search is necessary before a megaloblast is seen, in fact
two or three films may have to be systematically gone over before one is found ..."
5. The Biology of the Blood-cells with a Glossary of Hæmatological Terms: For by Oskar Cameron Gruner (1914)
"The presence of haemoglobin in the megaloblast would be sought for. ... The progress
of development is set in motion but arrested at the megaloblast stage. ..."
6. Birmingham Medical Review (1901)
"In a megaloblast it is a mixed colour, indicating a degeneration termed ...
The Nucleus of the megaloblast, however, is single, does not form so large a ..."
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