blast

Introduction

General term for immature or precursor cell.

also see point-of-care beta-lactam allergy skin testing (BLAST)

Laboratory

• blasts in body fluid
  • blasts in blood (blast count)
    • blasts in blood from fetus
      • blasts in cord blood
  • blasts in CSF
  • blasts in peritoneal fluid
  • blasts in pleural fluid
  • blasts in synovial fluid

More general terms

• histology

Additional terms

• angioblast
• blast count
• erythroblast
• fibroblast
• lymphoblast
• melanoblast
• myeloblast
• normoblast
• odontoblast
• osteoblast
• plasmablast
• proerythroblast
• syncytiotrophoblast