Aubf Lab Flashcards
Appearance: small, spherical, and rod shaped structures
Bacteria
Appearance: small, oval, refractile structures with buds and or mycells
Yeast
Pear-shaped, motile, flagellated
Trichomonas
Appearance: tapered oval head with long, thin tail
Spermatozoa
Appearance: single or clumped threads with a low refractive index
Mucus
Sources of error in miscellaneous structures:
Amorphour urate and phosphates
Bacteria
Sources of error under miscellaneous
RBCs
Yeast
Sources of error under miscellaneous
WBCs, RTE cells
Trichomonas
Sources of error under miscellaneous
None
Spermatozoa
Sources of error under mucus threads
Hyaline casts
Appearance: highly refractile RTE cells
Oval fat bodies
Appearance: rectangular, columnar, oval, cuboidal, with an eccentric nucleus possible bilirubin stained or hemosiderin-laden
RTE cells
Appearance: largest cells in the epithelial cells, with abundant irregular cytoplasm and prominent nuclei
Squamous epithelial cell
Epithelial cell
Appearance: spherical, polyhedral, or caudate with centrally located nucleus
Transitional cells