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megalocyte


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Megalocyte  \Meg"a*lo*cyte\,  n.  [Megalo-  +  Gr  ?  a  hollow 
  vessel.]  (Physiol.) 
  A  large  flattened  corpuscle,  twice  the  diameter  of  the 
  ordinary  red  corpuscle,  found  in  considerable  numbers  in  the 
  blood  in  profound  an[ae]mia. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  megalocyte 
  n  :  abnormally  large  red  blood  cell  (associated  with  pernicious 
  anemia)  [syn:  {macrocyte}] 




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