megaloblast
noun
an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
megaloblastic
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a word derived from
megaloblast.
Example Sentences
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They hold their privileged position amongst the anæmias of the megaloblastic type, only for the reason that their cause is known to us, and can be removed.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
These cases, familiar to every observer, prove with certainty that the megaloblastic degeneration as such may pass away, and that in isolated cases the conventional treatment by arsenic suffices to bring about this result.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
Since the fresh formation of red blood corpuscles by means of the megaloblastic method is clearly much slower.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
It is sufficiently conclusive for the pernicious nature of the case, "if only considerable portions but not the whole marrow, have lapsed into megaloblastic degeneration."
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
For this reason, the prognosis of megaloblastic anæmia, apart from the group of Bothriocephalus anæmia, is exceedingly bad.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
