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  • noun Plural form of lymphoblast.

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Examples

  • The findings, which were based on analysis of genetic information in lymphoblasts, or immature white blood cells, appear online March 6 in the American Journal of Medical Genetics.

    Science Press Releases 2007

  • In addition, I isolated a novel lymphotropic polyomavirus from African Green Monkey lymphoblasts.

    Harald zur Hausen - Autobiography 2009

  • The lymphoblasts overproduce and crowd out normal blood-forming cells.

    Leukemia - Diagnosis and Treatment 2005

  • In ALL, the bone marrow makes too many immature lymphocytes (called lymphoblasts) that do not mature correctly.

    Leukemia - Diagnosis and Treatment 2005

  • I thought of Rachel Ferns and Silverboy, and lymphoblasts.

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • Which was all very well, except when your client was a bright truthful nine-year-old fighting a losing battle against a rising tide of lymphoblasts.

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • I thought of Rachel Ferns and Silverboy, and lymphoblasts.

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • Which was all very well, except when your client was a bright truthful nine-year-old fighting a losing battle against a rising tide of lymphoblasts.

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • In acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the excess white blood cells are called lymphocytes or lymphoblasts, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • After studying two mouse models of Huntington's disease as well as lymphoblasts (white cells) from people with the disease, she and her team found that the mutated huntingtin protein was sabotaging the cell's garbage-collecting efforts.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

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