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MICROCYTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does microcyte mean?
• MICROCYTE (noun)
The noun MICROCYTE has 1 sense:
1. an abnormally small red blood cell (less than 5 microns in diameter)
Familiarity information: MICROCYTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An abnormally small red blood cell (less than 5 microns in diameter)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("microcyte" 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 measurement of the microcytes in a biological specimen.
(Microcyte Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The determination of the number of microcytes in a blood sample.
(Microcyte Count, NCI Thesaurus)
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