Hematopoiesis/Definition

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Hematopoiesis [r]: The processes by which all types of blood cells are generated, in the bone marrow, from pluripotential stem cells, which become megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor cells and further differentiate into normal or abnormal circulating elements of blood