n :  a polychromatic nucleated cell of red marrow that synthesizes hemoglobin and that is an intermediate in the initial stage of red blood cell formation : broadly  :  a cell ancestral to red blood cells - compare NORMOBLAST  eryth*ro*blas*tic adj 
 
 
 
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