macro-ovalocyte

macro-ovalocyte

 [mak″ro-o´vah-lo-sīt]
an enlarged, oval erythrocyte seen in megaloblastic anemia.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Since both may have presence of macrocytes, peripheral smear examination alone may pose a difficulty in distinction between the two in the absence of macro-ovalocytes and hypersegmented neutrophils, in these cases bone marrow examination is useful.
PREVALENCE OF THROMBOCYTOPENIA AND PANCYTOPENIA IN PATIENTS WITH MEGALOBLASTIC ANAEMIA

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