spherostomatocyte
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A near-spherical stomatocyte
Example Sentences
- "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 ]."
Etymology
From sphero- + stomatocyte.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: sphero