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noun
An immature cell of bone marrow that develops into a myelocyte.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
a precursor of leukocytes that normally occurs only in bone marrow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: leukocyte, leucocyte, white blood cell, white cell, white blood corpuscle, white corpuscle, WBC
History
From myelo- + -blast.
Across languages
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