pyknocyte means A distorted, contracted or otherwise malformed red blood cell. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Etymology
From pykno- + -cyte.
noun
- A distorted, contracted or otherwise malformed red blood cell.“Infantile pyknocytosis is diagnosed only by careful analysis of peripheral blood smear, which reveals numerous small irregular and contracted red blood cells with hyper-dense spikes (the pyknocytes), that progressively increase in number to peak at approximately 3–6 weeks postnatal age, and then spontaneously disappear (at an average age of 4–6 months).”