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noun
A red blood cell that is spherical rather than biconcave, as occurs in spherocytosis
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, cytology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
an abnormal spherical red blood cell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: red blood cell, RBC, erythrocyte
History
From sphero- + -cyte.
Across languages
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