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MACROCYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does macrocyte mean? 

MACROCYTE (noun)
  The noun MACROCYTE has 1 sense:

1. abnormally large red blood cell (associated with pernicious anemia)play

  Familiarity information: MACROCYTE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MACROCYTE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormally large red blood cell (associated with pernicious anemia)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

macrocyte; megalocyte

Hypernyms ("macrocyte" is a kind of...):

erythrocyte; RBC; red blood cell (a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus)


 Context examples 


A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of the monocytes to macrocytes present in a sample.

(Monocytes to Macrocytes Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the ratio of monocytes compared to macrocytes present in a sample.

(Monocytes to Macrocytes Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)



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