Pelger anomaly

Pelger anomaly

[′pel·gər ə‚näm·ə·lē]

(medicine)

A hereditary anomaly of granulocytes in the peripheral blood with no more than one or two nuclear lobes and unusually coarse nuclear chromatin.

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