Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to that condition of the metazoic ovum or embryo which immediately succeeds segmentation, in which a single germinal layer is alone represented: correlated with diploblastic and triploblastic.

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  • In acute monoblastic leukemia, the leukemia cell, the monoblast, is the precursor of the monocyte, another type of infection-fighting white blood cell.

    Leukemia - Diagnosis and Treatment 2005

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