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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An abnormally large nucleated red blood cell found especially in people having pernicious anemia or certain vitamin deficiencies.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A large nucleate cell found in the bone-marrow in the embryo: also a megalocyte, or large red blood-corpuscle occurring in certain forms of anemia in extra-uterine life.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An abnormally large red blood cell associated with pernicious anemia and with folic acid deficiency

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency

Etymologies

  1. megalo- + -blast (Wiktionary)

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  1. red blood cell
  1. RBC
  1. erythrocyte

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