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erythropoiesis

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The production of red blood cells (in bone marrow)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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noun

Meaning 2

the process of producing red blood cells by the stem cells in the bone marrow

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: organic process, biological process

History

Etymology

From erythro- + -poiesis.

Across languages

Translations

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: eritropoeza — production of red blood cells
  • Basque: eritropoiesi — production of red blood cells
  • Bulgarian: еритропоеза (eritropoeza) — production of red blood cells
  • Catalan: eritropoesi — production of red blood cells
  • Chinese Mandarin: 红细胞生成 (hóngxìbāo shēngchéng) — production of red blood cells
  • Dutch: erytropoëse — production of red blood cells
  • Estonian: erütropoees — production of red blood cells
  • French: érythropoïèse — production of red blood cells
  • Galician: eritropoese — production of red blood cells
  • German: Erythropoese — production of red blood cells
  • Greek: ερυθροποίηση (erythropoíisi) — production of red blood cells
  • Hebrew: אריתרופויזה (eritropoyze) — production of red blood cells
  • Hungarian: erythropoezis — production of red blood cells
  • Indonesian: eritopoiesis — production of red blood cells
  • Italian: eritropoiesi — production of red blood cells
  • Kazakh: эритропоэз (éritropoéz) — production of red blood cells
  • Latvian: eritropoēze — production of red blood cells
  • Lithuanian: eritropoezė — production of red blood cells
  • Polish: erytropoeza — production of red blood cells
  • Portuguese: eritropoiese — production of red blood cells
  • Romanian: eritropoieză — production of red blood cells
  • Russian: эритропоэ́з (eritropoéz) — production of red blood cells
  • Sardinian: eritropojesi — production of red blood cells
  • Serbo-Croatian: еритропое́за — production of red blood cells
  • Serbo-Croatian: eritropoéza — production of red blood cells
  • Slovak: erytropoéza — production of red blood cells
  • Slovene: eritropoeza — production of red blood cells
  • Spanish: eritropoyesis — production of red blood cells
  • Swedish: erytropoes — production of red blood cells
  • Ukrainian: еритропое́з (erytropoéz) — production of red blood cells