microcyten.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 518 Microcytes..are small elements, not exceeding ·003 or ·004 mm. in diameter, brightly shining, of the same colour (or even deeper) as the red corpuscles.

1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 62 These microcytes are regarded by some as red blood-corpuscles in process of formation, by others as atrophied or degenerated red corpuscles.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 579 Small red corpuscles or microcytes may occur in varying numbers.

1935 L. E. H. Whitby & C. J. C. Britton Disorders of Blood iii. 49 Hypochromia may be found with microcytes and normocytes.

1976 Jrnl. Histochem. & Cytochem. 24 195 These features separated the data into six distinct condensed subgroups of red cells. Each sub group consisted of morphologically similar cells: (a) macrocytes, (b) normocytes, (c) schistocytes, acanthocytes and burr cells, (d) microcytes and spherocytes, (e) elliptocytes, sickle cells and pencil forms and (f) target cells.

1989 Scand. Jrnl. Clin. & Lab. Investigation 49 230 Sex-related differences in RBC size distribution histograms also appear from the values established for the microcyte and macrocyte fractions.

1995 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92 11609/2 There are many microcytes, occasional polychromatic macrocytes, and frequent target cells.