normocyten.
/ˈnɔːmə(ʊ)sʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈnɔrməˌsaɪt/ Medicine.
A red blood cell (erythrocyte) of normal size.
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globule1674
red corpuscle1747
red blood disc1835
red cell1843
red blood corpuscle1844
pneumocyte1872
poikilocyte1886
haematid1888
normoblast1889
polychromatic normoblast1899
normocyte1900
spherocyte1908
polychrome1909
siderocyte1915
reticulocyte1922
proerythroblast1927
target cell1938
acanthocyte1952
sideroblast1954
1900 Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) I. 273/1 The red cells..are spoken of as microcytes, normocytes, and megalocytes, according to their size.
1935 L. E. H. Whitby & C. J. C. Britton Disorders of Blood iii. 49 Hypochromia may be found with microcytes and normocytes.
1969 W. R. Platt Color Atlas & Textbk. Hematol. ii. 28/1 The erythrocyte (normocyte or red blood cell) measures 6–8 μ in diameter.
1994 Parasitol. Res. 80 614 During the early stages of infection in normal mice, parasites were found exclusively in normocytes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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