siderocyten.

1915 Chem. Abstr. 9 2933 The cells became over-filled with siderocytes.

1927 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 21 176 The view has also been held that it [sc. hæmosiderin] arises from iron circulating in an inorganic form, and the function of the siderophorous cells, the ‘siderocytes’ of Chevalier [sic], is to bring about the change.

1941 H. Grüneberg in Nature 26 July 114/2 The ‘iron cells’ or ‘siderocytes’ do not stain diffusely, but show blue granules which vary in number from one to a dozen or more and in size from fairly large blobs down to the finest dust-like stipples.

1966 J. W. Linman Princ. Hematol. iii. 63 Siderocytes are red cells that contain one or more hemosiderin granules; these inclusion bodies..are usually demonstrable only with special stains, such as Prussian blue. Occasionally they are associated with sufficient basophilic material to be evident with Romanowsky stains and are then referred to as Pappenheimer bodies.

1988 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 31 Mar. 858/1 Red-cell inclusions such as particles of hemosiderin within membrane-bound vacuoles (siderocytes) may be exteriorized by a different mechanism, leaving pits on the surface of the cell.

2003 S. S. Bottomly in K. M. Kadish et al. Porphyrin Handbk. XIV. 11/1 The presence of a dimorphic red cell population or occasional siderocyte on the blood smear..provide the initial clue to the diagnosis.

1922 Internat. Med. & Surg. Surv. 3 No. 3. v. 570 In leukemic myelosis.., the cause lies in the injury of the siderocytic apparatus of the spleen.

1957 Blood 12 168 Neither red cells nor inclusion bodies were lost when siderocytic blood was transfused into a recipient without a spleen.

2001 Human Molecular Genetics 10 2182/2 A novel gene encoding a mitochondrial membrane protein, has recently been identified because it is mutated in mice with siderocytic anemia.