haematoblast

English

Alternative forms

• hematoblast

Etymology

From haemato- +‎ -blast.

Noun

haematoblast (plural haematoblasts)

1. (anatomy) One of the minute disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles.

   Synonyms: blood plaque, blood plate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “haematoblast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)