Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The presence of macrocytes in the blood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
macrocythemia ; also, the process of formation of macrocytes: a tendency to over-size of the red blood-corpuscles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An abnormal physiological condition characterized by the presence of macrocytes in the blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The presence of
macrocytes in the blood.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the presence of macrocytes in the blood
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Examples
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Patient says he doesn't drink but the transaminases are off the wall and his CBC shows macrocytosis. blood test results strongly suggestive of alcoholism
Archive 2007-01-01 1 Dinosaur 2007
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These blood cells are actually produced by our bone marrow and only survive for about 3 weeks, but alcohol is a player here and can cause macrocytosis.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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