English Dictionary

megakaryocyte

noun

(anatomy) A large cell, found in bone marrow, responsible for the production of platelets.

The megakaryocyte is responsible for producing platelets.

意味（1）

(anatomy) A large cell, found in bone marrow, responsible for the production of platelets.

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.