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  2. Blood smear - Wikipedia

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    A blood smear, peripheral blood smear or blood film is a thin layer of blood smeared on a glass microscope slide and then stained in such a way as to allow the various blood cells to be examined microscopically.

  3. Giemsa stain - Wikipedia

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    It can be used for histopathological diagnosis of the Plasmodium species that cause malaria [2] and some other spirochete and protozoan blood parasites. It is also used to stain Wolbachia cells in host tissue. [3] Giemsa stain is a classic blood film stain for peripheral blood smears and bone marrow specimens.

  4. Romanowsky stain - Wikipedia

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    Blood film stained with Giemsa showing Plasmodium (center of image), the parasite that causes malaria infections.. In 1891 Romanowsky [8] [9] [10] developed a stain using a mixture of eosin (typically eosin Y) and aged solutions of methylene blue that formed hues unattributable to the staining components alone: distinctive shades of purple in the chromatin of the cell nucleus and within ...

  5. Leishman stain - Wikipedia

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    May-Grunwald-Giemsa is a good method for routine work. Wright's stain is a simpler method, whilst Leishman's is also a simple method which is especially suitable when a stained blood film is required urgently or the routine stain is not available (e.g. at night). Field's stain is a rapid stain used primarily on thin films for malarial parasites.

  6. Wright's stain - Wikipedia

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    Wright's stain is a hematologic stain that facilitates the differentiation of blood cell types. It is classically a mixture of eosin (red) and methylene blue dyes. It is used primarily to stain peripheral blood smears, urine samples, and bone marrow aspirates, which are examined under a light microscope.

  7. White blood cell differential - Wikipedia

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    A white blood cell differential is a medical laboratory test that provides information about the types and amounts of white blood cells in a person's blood. The test, which is usually ordered as part of a complete blood count (CBC), measures the amounts of the five normal white blood cell types – neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils and basophils – as well as abnormal cell ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag.

  9. Basophilic stippling - Wikipedia

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    Blood smear showing red blood cells with basophilic stippling. Basophilic stippling, also known as punctate basophilia, is the presence of numerous basophilic granules that are dispersed through the cytoplasm of erythrocytes in a peripheral blood smear. They can be demonstrated to be RNA.