SINCE 1828
promyelocyte
noun
pro·my·elo·cyte
| \(ˈ)prō-ˈmī-ə-lə-ˌsīt
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Medical Definition of promyelocyte
: a cell in bone marrow that is in an intermediate stage of development between a myeloblast and a myelocyte and has the characteristic granulations but lacks the specific staining reactions of a mature granulocyte of the blood
— called also
premyelocyte, progranulocyte
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