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Definition of reticulocytosis in English:

reticulocytosis

Pronunciation /rɪˌtɪkjʊləsʌɪˈtəʊsɪs/

noun

Medicine

  • The presence in the blood of an abnormally large number of reticulocytes, typically occurring in certain types of anaemia; an instance of this.

Origin

1920s; earliest use found in Richard John Ernst Scott (1863–1932). From reticulocyte + -osis.