Definition of Macrocytes

1. Noun. (plural of macrocyte) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Macrocytes

1. macrocyte [n] - See also: macrocyte

Lexicographical Neighbors of Macrocytes

macrocrystal
macrocrystalline
macrocrysts
macrocycle
macrocycles
macrocyclic
macrocyclic compound
macrocyclic compounds
macrocyclization
macrocyclizations
macrocyst
macrocystis
macrocysts
macrocytase
macrocyte
macrocytes (current term)
macrocythemia
macrocytic
macrocytic achylic anaemia
macrocytic anaemia
macrocytic anaemia of pregnancy
macrocytic anaemia tropical
macrocytic anemia
macrocytic hyperchromia
macrocytoses
macrocytosis
macrodactyl
macrodactylia
macrodactylous
macrodiagonal

Literary usage of Macrocytes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Clinical Chemistry, Microscopy, and Bacteriology by Martin Klopstock, Albert Kowarsky (1912)
"—These are about the size of the macrocytes, and frequently have two nuclei. The nucleated erythrocytes (both forms) appear only in ..."

2. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1893)
"Again, when the number of corpuscles has touched the lowest point those uow present are largely macrocytes, ie, new corpuscles in various stages of maturity ..."

3. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopical and Chemical by Charles Edmund Simon (1904)
"But, on the other hand, the presence of macrocytes may be interpreted as evidence of a regenerative process, bearing in mind that in the bone-marrow the ..."

4. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1920)
"macrocytes. These are cells above the normal size, the variations being ... Those cells from 9 to 12 p are called macrocytes; those between 12 and 16 p are ..."

5. The Lymphatics: General Anatomy of the Lymphatics by Gabriel Delamare, Bernard Cunéo, Cecil Huntington Leaf (1904)
"In the thoracic duct of the dog, I have found some macrocytes with a reniform ... I have also seen a fair number of vacuolated and non-vacuolated macrocytes ..."

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