erythrocyte
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- erythrocytic adjective
Etymology
Origin of erythrocyte
Example Sentences
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Because the arms of the Y-shaped antibodies attach randomly to more than one nonself erythrocyte surface, they form clumps of erythrocytes.
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It facilitates the proliferation and differentiation of the erythrocyte lineage.
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During the first day or two that it is in the circulation, an immature erythrocyte, known as a reticulocyte, will still typically contain remnants of organelles.
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When EPO stimulates the production of erythrocytes, iron is released from storage, bound to transferrin, and carried to the red marrow where it attaches to erythrocyte precursors.
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The authors who support this view and also describe it as the only kind of erythrocyte formation are chiefly Kölliker and E. Neumann.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
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