Abnormalities-identify

Question 1

Answer 1

Nuclear Hyposegmentation

Question 2

Answer 2

Reactive lymphocytes

Question 3

Answer 3

Reactive lymphocytes

Question 4

Answer 4

Smudge Cell

Question 5

Answer 5

Pyknosis

Question 6

Answer 6

Rouleaux

Question 7

Answer 7

Autoagglutination

Question 8

Answer 8

Anisocytosis

Question 9

Answer 9

Anisocytosis

Question 10

Answer 10

Polychromasia

Question 11

Answer 11

Hypochromasia

Question 12

Answer 12

Poikilocytosis
Abnormally shaped RBC

Question 13

Answer 13

Schistocytes
RBC fragments

Question 14

Answer 14

Acanthocytes
Spur cells
Spherical cells w/ club shaped spicules of different lengths at irregular intervals

Question 15

Answer 15

Echinocytes
Created
Regularly spiculated

Question 16

Answer 16

Drepanocytes
Sickle shaped
Normal in deer and angora goats

Question 17

Answer 17

Keratocytes
Helmet cells, blister cells/ bite cells
Cells appear to contain a vacuole

Question 18

Answer 18

Spherocytes
Small, dark staining RBC w/ reduced or no central pallor

Question 19

Answer 19

Leptocytes
Target cells

Question 20

Answer 20

Stomatocytes
Elongated area of central pallor
- artifact - blood smear to thick

Question 21

Answer 21

Elliptocytes
Elongated-oval RBC
* NORMAL in camellias & nonmammals

Question 22

Answer 22

Eccentrocytes
Oxidant injury to RBC/Hemoglobin
Hemoglobin pushed to one side
* association with Heinz bodies

Question 23

Answer 23

Dacryocytes
Teardrop shaped

Question 24

Answer 24

Basophilic stippling
- presence of small, dark blue bodies
- residual RNA

Question 25

Answer 25

Howell-Jolly bodies
- blue, perfectly round inclusion
*present in young RBCs

Question 26

Answer 26

Heinz bodies
- round blue structures- denatured hemoglobin