RETICULOCYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reticulocyte mean? 

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

1. an immature red blood cell containing a network of filaments or granules

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETICULOCYTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An immature red blood cell containing a network of filaments or granules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

erythrocyte; RBC; red blood cell (a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus)

 Context examples 

The determination of the ratio of immature reticulocytes to total reticulocytes present in a sample.

(Immature Reticulocyte Fraction Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the immature reticulocyte fraction present in a biological specimen.

(Immature Reticulocyte Fraction Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It differentiates into a reticulocyte when it extrudes its nucleus.

(Orthochromatophilic Erythroblast, NCI Thesaurus)

An immature, nucleated erythrocyte occupying the stage of erythropoiesis that follows formation of erythroid progenitor cells and precedes formation of reticulocytes.

(Erythroblast, NCI Thesaurus)

A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of the hematocrit corrected reticulocytes to erythrocytes present in a sample.

(Hematocrit Corrected Reticulocytes to Erythrocytes Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the hematocrit corrected reticulocytes in a biological specimen.

(Hematocrit Corrected Reticulocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the amount of hematocrit corrected reticulocytes present in a sample.

(Hematocrit Corrected Reticulocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus)

Expressed in a variety of tissues (abundantly in erythroid stem cells to differentiated reticulocytes) by human MPP1 Gene (MAGUK Family), 466-aa 52-kDa Palmitoylated Membrane Protein 1 contains 1 PDZ/DHR domain, 1 conserved SH3 domain, 1 guanylate kinase-like domain, and a region that binds to cytoskeletal protein 4.1.

(Palmitoylated Membrane Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

An iron protein complex, containing up to 23% iron, formed by the union of ferric iron with apoferritin; it is found in the intestinal mucosa, spleen, bone marrow, reticulocytes, and liver, and regulates iron storage and transport from the intestinal lumen to plasma.

(Ferritin, NCI Thesaurus)