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Reticulocyte

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An immature red blood cell that contains a network of basophilic filaments.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An immature red blood cell, having a reticular network of RNA

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an immature red blood cell containing a network of filaments or granules

Word Usage

"We assumed that the same mechanism that is involved in differentiation and maturation of the reticulocyte is also involved in the removal of "naturally occurring" mutant abnormal hemoglobins that are synthesized in different hemoglobinopathies, such as thalassemias and sickle cell anemia, and also in the destruction of the amino acid analogs"

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red blood cell RBC erythrocyte

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