Monday, August 15, 2011

Human Physiology- Why are polychromatic and orthochromatic erythroblasts are named so?

Chromatic refers to colour. Polychromatic erythroblasts are called so because their cytoplasm has a variable colour, so it can be of many (poly) colours. Orthochromatic erythroblasts are the ones that have their cytoplasm the same (orto) colour than erythrocytes.

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