- thrombocyte
- noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1893 platelet; also a cell with a similar clotting function • thrombocytic adjective
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thrombocyte — [ trɔ̃bɔsit ] n. m. • fin XIXe; de thrombo et cyte ♦ Méd. Plaquette sanguine. ● thrombocyte nom masculin Synonyme de plaquette. thrombocyte n. m. BIOL … Encyclopédie Universelle
thrombocyte — [thräm′bə sīt΄] n. [ THROMBO + CYTE] 1. a small nucleated blood cell in most vertebrates, except mammals, that initiates the process of blood clotting 2. PLATELET (sense 1) thrombocytic [thräm΄ bōsit′ik] adj … English World dictionary
Thrombocyte — De gauche à droite : érythrocyte, thrombocyte, leucocyte. Un thrombocyte ou plaquette est un élément figuré du sang, formé dans la moelle osseuse, mais qui se fragmente immédiatement en petits éléments. Les thrombocytes ne sont donc en fait… … Wikipédia en Français
thrombocyte series — thrombocytic series the succession of morphologically distinguishable cells that are stages in platelet (thrombocyte) development: in order of maturity, the megakaryoblast, promegakaryocyte, and megakaryocyte, which fragments to form platelets … Medical dictionary
Thrombocyte — Thrombocytes are cells that play a key role in blood clotting. In mammals, thrombocytes are anucleated cell fragments called platelets. Nucleated thrombocytes of nonmammalian vertebrates differ from the mammalian plates not only in having a… … Wikipedia
thrombocyte — Archaic name for a blood platelet … Dictionary of molecular biology
thrombocyte — thrombocytic /throm beuh sit ik/, adj. /throm beuh suyt /, n. Anat. 1. platelet. 2. one of the minute, nucleate cells that aid coagulation in the blood of those vertebrates that do not have blood platelets. [1905 10; THROMBO + CYTE] * * * a … Universalium
thrombocyte — noun A blood platelet … Wiktionary
Thrombocyte — A platelet. Crucial to normal blood clotting. Although platelets are sometimes classed as blood cells, they are not. They are fragments of a large cell called a megakaryocyte (literally, a large cell). * * * SYN: platelet. [thrombo + G. kytos,… … Medical dictionary
thrombocyte — n. blood platelet … English contemporary dictionary
