Definition of "erythroblast" []

• Any of the nucleated cells normally found only in bone marrow that develop into erythrocytes. (noun)

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• "Can survival of the fittest or random mutations explain how a hemocytoblast (first stage) could change (mature) into a proerythroblast, whose only apparent job is to change (mature) into an erythroblast, whose job is to become a normoblast and then a reticulocyte and finally a red blood cell?"
• "Beginning as a hemocytoblast, a cell that has multiple development potentials, in the mesenchyme, the structure slowly turns into an erythroblast, which then loses its nucleus and mitochondria and gains hemoglobin."
• "Consequently, the erythroblast can undergo maturation."