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Podcast: The Rx Bricks Podcast
Episode: Megaloblastic Anemia
Description: Megaloblast. Now thereās a word you donāt hear every day. The root -blast (from the GreekĀ blastos, meaning germ or bud) may be somewhat familiar since we talk about blast cells (very young hematopoietic precursor cells) in hematology. And megalo- (from the GreekĀ megas, meaning large or great) is also used fairly frequently, as in splenomegaly (enlargement of the spleen). So does āmegaloblastā just mean a large, immature cell? Weāll answer this question, and many more, in this discussion of megaloblastic anemia.
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