Medical term:
stomatocyte
stomatocyte
[sto´mah-to-sīt]an abnormal red blood cell in which a slit or mouthlike area replaces the normal central circle of pallor, often due to edema.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
sto·ma·to·cyte
(stō'mă-tō-sīt),A red blood cell that exhibits a slit or mouth-shaped pallor rather than a central one on air-dried smears; for example, Rh null cells.
[stomato- + G. kytos, cell]
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