Normoblast

normoblast

[′nȯr·mə‚blast]

(histology)

The smallest of the nucleated precursors of the erythrocyte; slightly larger than a mature adult erythrocyte. Also known as acidophilic erythroblast; arthochromatic erythroblast; eosinophilic erythroblast; karyocyte; metakaryocyte; metanitricyte; metarubricyte.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Normoblast

 

one of the stages in the maturation of erythrocytes in the bone marrow of mammals and man. The cytoplasm of a developing normoblast gradually becomes enriched with hemoglobin and the nucleus degenerates, resulting in the emergence of a mature erythrocyte.

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