Meaning of pyknocyte | Babel Free

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A distorted, contracted or otherwise malformed red blood cell.

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“Infantile pyknocytosis is diagnosed only by careful analysis of peripheral blood smear, which reveals numerous small irregular and contracted red blood cells with hyper-dense spikes (the pyknocytes), that progressively increase in number to peak at approximately 3–6 weeks postnatal age, and then spontaneously disappear (at an average age of 4–6 months).”

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