Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An immature red blood cell that contains a network of basophilic filaments.

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  • noun An immature red blood cell, having a reticular network of RNA

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  • noun an immature red blood cell containing a network of filaments or granules

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[reticul(um) + –cyte.]

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Examples

  • We assumed that the same mechanism that is involved in differentiation and maturation of the reticulocyte is also involved in the removal of "naturally occurring" mutant abnormal hemoglobins that are synthesized in different hemoglobinopathies, such as thalassemias and sickle cell anemia, and also in the destruction of the amino acid analogs

    Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography 2005

  • A later stage of the cell known as a reticulocyte, is what finally develops into an erythrocyte.

    unknown title 2009

  • The progenitor cell loses its nucleus, and most of its intracellular membranes are degraded; the now non-nucleated form of the cell, termed a reticulocyte, then loses its ribosomes, thus preventing any further synthesis of haemoglobin.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The progenitor cell loses its nucleus, and most of its intracellular membranes are degraded; the now non-nucleated form of the cell, termed a reticulocyte, then loses its ribosomes, thus preventing any further synthesis of haemoglobin.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A later stage of the cell known as a reticulocyte, is what finally develops into an erythrocyte.

    unknown title 2009

  • A later stage of the cell known as a reticulocyte, is what finally develops into an erythrocyte.

    unknown title 2009

  • A later stage of the cell known as a reticulocyte, is what finally develops into an erythrocyte.

    unknown title 2009

  • The model system that was chosen to study proteolysis was degradation of abnormal hemoglobin in the reticulocyte which is the terminally differentiating red blood cell.

    Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography 2005

  • "precursor" cell called a reticulocyte, the cell ejects many structures, such as mitochodria and the nucleus (the sac that contains the cell's genes).

    unknown title 2009

  • "precursor" cell called a reticulocyte, the cell ejects many structures, such as mitochodria and the nucleus (the sac that contains the cell's genes).

    unknown title 2009

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