ERYTHROCYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erythrocyte mean? 

• ERYTHROCYTE (noun)
  The noun ERYTHROCYTE has 1 sense:

1. a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus

  Familiarity information: ERYTHROCYTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERYTHROCYTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

erythrocyte; RBC; red blood cell

Hypernyms ("erythrocyte" is a kind of...):

blood cell; blood corpuscle; corpuscle (either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets)

Meronyms (substance of "erythrocyte"):

haemoglobin; Hb; hemoglobin (a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "erythrocyte"):

macrocyte; megalocyte (abnormally large red blood cell (associated with pernicious anemia))

megaloblast (abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency)

acanthocyte (an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm)

microcyte (an abnormally small red blood cell (less than 5 microns in diameter))

reticulocyte (an immature red blood cell containing a network of filaments or granules)

sickle cell (an abnormal red blood cell that has a crescent shape and an abnormal form of hemoglobin)

siderocyte (an abnormal red blood cell containing granules of iron not bound in hemoglobin)

spherocyte (an abnormal spherical red blood cell)

target cell (an abnormal red blood cell with the appearance of a dark ring surrounding a dark center; associated with anemia)

 Context examples 

One of the cells of the blood, a leukocyte or erythrocyte.

(Murine Blood Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

T lymphocyte cells form rosettes with sheep erythrocytes and, in the presence of transforming agents (mitogens), differentiate and divide.

(Murine T-Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of myeloid progenitor cells to erythrocyte precursor cells in a biological specimen.

(Myeloid to Erythroid Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

In the majority of cases, it appears in the first week of life and is classified as physiologic due to accelerated destruction of erythrocytes and liver immaturity.

(Neonatal Jaundice, NCI Thesaurus)

A pegylated form of recombinant human erythropoietin, a glycosylated protein naturally produced in the kidney that stimulates erythrocyte production in the bone marrow.

(Methoxy Polyethylene Glycol-Epoetin beta, NCI Thesaurus)

Merlin protein (schwannomin, NF2 gene product) exhibits similarity to erythrocyte protein 4.1 and members of the ERM family (moesin, ezrin, and radixin), proteins thought to link cytoskeletal components with cell membrane proteins.

(Merlin, NCI Thesaurus)

Similar to erythropoietin, darbopoietin alfa binds to and activates epoetin receptors, thereby inducing the differentiation and maturation of erythrocyte progenitors, stimulating endothelial cell proliferation, and stimulating B-cell proliferation and immunoglobulin production.

(Darbepoetin alfa, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the eccentrocytes (erythrocytes in which the hemoglobin is localized to a particular portion of the cell, noticeable as localized staining) in a biological specimen.

(Eccentrocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A measurement of the elliptically shaped erythrocytes in a biological specimen.

(Elliptocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the ratio of nucleated erythrocytes compared to leukocytes present in a sample.

(Nucleated Erythrocyte to Leukocyte Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)