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Definition of Microcytes
1. microcyte [n] - See also: microcyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Microcytes
Literary usage of Microcytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"NOTE ON THE microcytes IN THE BLOOD AND THEIR PROBABLE ORIGIN. By W. OSLER, of
Montreal, Canada. [ABSTRACT. ..."
2. A Manual of Clinical Chemistry, Microscopy, and Bacteriology by Martin Klopstock, Albert Kowarsky (1912)
"Macro- and microcytes.—The first are larger than the normal erythrocytes, ...
The microcytes are smaller than the normal erythrocytes, and are usually found ..."
3. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1918)
"... they may vary considerably in size, many being much smaller than
normal—microcytes (Plate II, Fig. B) ; some larger than normal—macrocytes or ..."
4. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"... The smaller forms, the microcytes, illustrate the extreme decrease in size of
the red cell under pathological conditions. ..."
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