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erythroblast (ә-rith´ro-blast) a term originally used for any type of nucleated erythrocyte, but now usually limited to one of the nucleated precursors of an erythrocyte, one of the developmental stages in the erythrocytic series, in contrast to a megaloblast. In this usage, it is called also normoblast. basophilic erythroblast
a nucleated precursor in the erythrocytic series, preceding the polychromatophilic erythroblast and following the proerythroblast; the cytoplasm is basophilic, the nucleus
is large with clumped chromatin, and the nucleoli have disappeared. Called also basophilic normoblast. orthochromatic erythroblast
see normoblast. polychromatic erythroblast
, polychromatophilic erythroblast
see normoblast.
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