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A blood smear, peripheral blood smear or blood film is a thin layer of blood smeared on a ... The left image shows a microscopic view of a normal adult blood film, ...
Rare elliptocytes (less than 1%) on a peripheral blood smear are a normal finding. [citation needed] These abnormal red blood cells are seen in higher numbers in the blood films of patients with blood disorders such as: [4] Hereditary elliptocytosis and Southeast Asian ovalocytosis; Thalassemia; Iron deficiency; Myelodysplastic syndrome and ...
Spherocytosis can be diagnosed in Peripheral blood film by seeing spherical red blood cells rather than biconcave. Because spherical red blood cells are more prone to lysis in water (because they lack some proteins in their cytoskeleton) there will be increased osmotic fragility on acidified glycerol lysis test. [citation needed]
Along with Döhle bodies and toxic vacuolation, which are two other findings in the cytoplasm of granulocytes, toxic granulation is a peripheral blood film finding suggestive of an inflammatory process. [1] Toxic granulation is often found in patients with bacterial infection and sepsis, [1] [2] although the finding is nonspecific. [3]
Peripheral blood smear in patient with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Typical schistocytes are annotated. A schistocyte or schizocyte (from Greek schistos for "divided" and kytos for "hollow" or "cell") is a fragmented part of a red blood cell. Schistocytes are typically irregularly shaped, jagged, and have two pointed ends. [1]
In vivo (within the blood vessel), the codocyte is a bell-shaped cell. It assumes a "target" configuration only when processed to obtain a blood film. In the film these cells appear thinner than normal, primarily due to their pallor (by which thickness is judged on microscopy).
This is a clinical laboratory finding. It is visualized by drawing blood from a patient and viewing the blood smeared on a slide under a microscope. Normal neutrophils are uniform in size, with an apparent diameter of about 13 μm in a film. When stained, neutrophils have a segmented nucleus and pink/orange cytoplasm under light microscope.
A human peripheral blood smear; NRBCs are visible as larger cells with dark centers.. A nucleated red blood cell (NRBC), also known by several other names, is a red blood cell that contains a cell nucleus.