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megakaryocytes

megakaryocytes is the plural of megakaryocyte.

Meaning of megakaryocyte

Noun

megakaryocyte (plural megakaryocytes)

  1. A large cell, found in bone marrow, responsible for the production of platelets.
    • These have been described as giant cells with budding nuclei (Bizzozero [2]); but it seems to me that they are worthy of a more distinctive name. I shall speak of them hereafter as megakaryocytes, or large nucleated giant cells, while the first class might be named polykaryocytes, or multinucleated...1890, W. H. Howell, “Observations upon the occurrence, structure, and function of the giant cells of the marrow”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 4, page 118

Questions about megakaryocytes

What is megakaryocytes the plural of?
Megakaryocytes is the plural of megakaryocyte.

Words near megakaryocytes in the dictionary

  1. megakaryoblast
  2. megakaryoblastic
  3. megakaryoblastoid
  4. megakaryoblasts
  5. megakaryocyte
  6. megakaryocytes
  7. megakaryocytic
  8. megakaryocytopoesis
  9. megakaryocytopoieses
  10. megakaryocytopoiesis
  11. megakaryocytopoietic

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