PACKED CELLS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does packed cells mean? 

• PACKED CELLS (noun)
  The noun PACKED CELLS has 1 sense:

1. a preparation of blood cells separated from the liquid plasma

  Familiarity information: PACKED CELLS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACKED CELLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A preparation of blood cells separated from the liquid plasma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Context example:

packed cells are given to severely anemic patients in order to avoid overloading the circulatory system with too much fluid

Hypernyms ("packed cells" is a kind of...):

blood cell; blood corpuscle; corpuscle (either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets)

 Context examples 

Cells exhibit features of mast cells; Lesion has characteristic cytology: uniform, closely packed cells with round nuclei and clear abundant cytoplasm with or without granules

(Mouse Mast Cell Hematopoietic Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Histologically, it is composed of closely packed cells with hyperchromatic nuclei and scant basophilic cytoplasm.

(Esophageal Basaloid Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)