pyknocyte

pyknocyte

 [pik´no-sīt]

a distorted and contracted, occasionally spiculed erythrocyte.

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pyknocyte

(pik'no-sit) [? + kytos, cell]

A form of spiculed red cell.

See: spiculed red cell

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