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microcyte


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Microcyte  \Mi"cro*cyte\,  n.  [Micro-  +  Gr  ?  a  hollow  vessel.] 
  (Physiol.) 
  One  of  the  elementary  granules  found  in  blood.  They  are  much 
  smaller  than  an  ordinary  corpuscle,  and  are  particularly 
  noticeable  in  disease,  as  in  an[ae]mia. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  microcyte 
  n  :  an  abnormally  small  red  blood  cell  (less  than  5  microns  in 
  diameter) 




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