blood plaque

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blood plaque - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Haematoblast \H[ae]m"a*to*blast\ (-bl[a^]st`), n. [H[ae]mato- +
     -blast.] (Anat.)
     One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood
     with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a
     third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an
     early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; --
     called also blood plaque, and blood plate.
     [1913 Webster]