Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormally large nucleated red blood cell found especially in people having pernicious anemia or certain vitamin deficiencies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large nucleate cell found in the bone-marrow in the embryo: also a megalocyte, or large red blood-corpuscle occurring in certain forms of anemia in extra-uterine life.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An abnormally large
red blood cell associated withpernicious anemia and withfolic acid deficiency
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency
Etymologies
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megalo- + -blast
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bilby commented on the word megaloblast
Pernicious anemia! Owww!
October 27, 2008