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Megalocyte

Meg′a-lo-cyte

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Noun.
[
Megalo-
+ Gr. [GREEK] a hollow vessel.]
(Physiol.)
A large, flattened red blood cell corpuscle having no nucleus, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anaemia.