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noun
A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anemia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
abnormally large red blood cell (associated with pernicious anemia)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: macrocyte
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: red blood cell, RBC, erythrocyte
History
From megalo- + -cyte.
