erythropoiesisn.
/ɛˌrɪθrəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs/ Physiology.
The production of red blood cells (erythrocytes).
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1918 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 24 24 In the liver..and the omentum, erythropoiesis has been repeatedly described as taking place extravascularly.
1941 Lancet 23 Aug. 208/2 A scheme of normal and pathological erythropoiesis is proposed which shows that disease may cause changes in the development of the normoblastic group of cells or maturation may be deflected to a megaloblastic group.
1951 G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) x. 432 Perhaps the most favourable material for observing the details of erythropoiesis in living tissue is provided by small explants of the presumptive erythrogenic mesoderm of an early chick blastoderm... The erythrogenic cells rapidly disintegrate into small, almost spherical primitive blood cells.
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