MEGALOBLAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does megaloblast mean? 

• MEGALOBLAST (noun)
  The noun MEGALOBLAST has 1 sense:

1. abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEGALOBLAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("megaloblast" 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)

Derivation:

megaloblastic (of or relating to megaloblasts)

 Context examples 

Anemia characterized by the presence of megaloblasts in the bone marrow.

(Megaloblastic Anemia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Anemia characterized by the presence of unusually large erythroblasts in the bone marrow called megaloblasts.

(Megaloblastic Anemia, NCI Thesaurus)