metamyelocyten.
/ˌmɛtəˈmʌɪələˌsʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəˈmaɪələˌsaɪt/ Histology.
A granulocyte at a stage of development between a myelocyte and a mature granular leucocyte, typically having a more or less deeply indented nucleus and cytoplasm containing specific granules.
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1914 R. Donaldson tr. A. Pappenheim Clin. Exam. Blood i. 20 Metamyelocyte is the name given to that type of cell which is intermediate in development between the above-named myelocyte and the polymorphonuclear leucocyte of normal blood.
1925 O. S. Strong & A. Elwyn Bailey's Text-bk. Histol. (ed. 7) vi. 142 The myelocytes are the most abundant developmental forms of marrow... The most immature are known as promyelocytes, the fully matured as metamyelocytes.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxiii. 585 The granulocytes..do not enter the blood-stream normally until they acquire amœboid activity as metamyelocytes.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 63/2 The bone marrow is infiltrated with abnormal myelocytes and metamyelocytes and examination of it is diagnostic.
1998 Cell Growth & Differentiation 9 59 These cells were blocked in the granulocytic differentiation program at the metamyelocyte stage.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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