spheroechinocyte

English

Etymology

From sphero- +‎ echinocyte.

Noun

spheroechinocyte (plural spheroechinocytes)

1. An echinocyte in the form of a crenated sphere
   • 2015 December 5, “Adaption to High Altitude: An Evaluation of the Storage Quality of Suspended Red Blood Cells Prepared from the Whole Blood of Tibetan Plateau Migrants”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In contrast, the number of irreversible shapes such as spheroechinocyte and spherostomatocyte shapes was higher in plateau RBCs compared with lowland RBCs. Previous studies indicated that RBC shape changes are related to enhanced osmotic fragility and cation dysregulation, and are accompanied with increasing hemolysis and acidosis [23 ,24 ].