RETICULOCYTE -
Noun: A red blood cell that is not fully mature. It retains strands of nuclear material. Reticulocytes normally make up from 0.1 to 1 percent of the red blood cells in the body. See Haematopoiesis .

Latin - reticulum = net (taken from the net like appearance of the remaining nuclear material inside them) +

-cyte = a cell from Greek - kytos = anything hollow.

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