megakaryocyte
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large cell, found in bone marrow, responsible for the production of platelets.
Example Sentences
- "These have been described as giant cells with budding nuclei (Bizzozero [2]); but it seems to me that they are worthy of a more distinctive name. I shall speak of them hereafter as megakaryocytes, or large nucleated giant cells, while the first class might be named polykaryocytes, or multinucleated giant cells."
- "The evidence of formation of blood platelets from the megakaryocyte is conclusive. Except for the origin of platelets in the early embryo from a forerunner of the megakaryocyte, Wright recognizes no other source for blood platelets in mammals."
- "Under appropriate culture conditions, the megakaryocyte burst-forming cell can develop into 40 to 500 megakaryocytes within 1 week."