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- adjective cytology Of or pertaining to a
megakaryoblast
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Examples
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In contrast, acute erythroleukemia is a cancer of the young red blood cells, called erythroblasts, and acute megakaryoblastic leukemia is a leukemia involving the platelet-forming cells called megakaryoblasts.
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But never mind the megakaryoblastic ducatoonish behemoth.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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MH, Grondin F, Cayer P, McDonald PP, Dubois CM (2002) Furin gene (fur) regulation in differentiating human megakaryoblastic Dami cells: involvement of the proximal GATA recognition motif in the P1 promoter and impact on the maturation of furin substrates.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Katarina Hajdin et al. 2010
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Children with Down syndrome are at higher risk for transient myeloproliferative disorder, a precursor of leukemia, as well as for acute megakaryoblastic leukemia.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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Abdelhaleem M, Beimnet K, Kirby-Allen M, Naqvi A, Hitzler J, et al. (2007) High incidence of CALM-AF10 fusion and the identification of a novel fusion transcript in acute megakaryoblastic leukemia in children without down's syndrome.
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