Blood Cells and WBC's Flashcards
What are these cells? What are 4 aspects that can bee seen which indicates this? What type of leukogram would you see these in?
Toxic Neutrophils. Toxic vaculolization, dohle bodies, basophilic cytoplasm, odd nucleus. Inflammatory.
What is this, what does it indicate?
Metarubricyte. Regenerative anemia.
What 3 things do you notice here. What does it indicate?
Reticulocytes, stomatocytes, anisocytosis. Regenerative anemia.
What are the arrows pointing to? When do you often see this?
Acanthocyte. Hemangio sarcoma.
What is this? When do you often see it? What is it a precursor to?
Metamyelocyte. Left shit. Band.
What is this? What does it indicate?
Hypochromasia. Low hemoglobin. Deficency in Fe, Cu, Protein or b12
What is this? When would you see this? How does it happen?
Shistocyte, heartworm or inflammation. Ripped by fibrin strands.
What is this? How might it occur artifically? Naturally?
Echinocyte. Crenates from hypertonic solution ( edta ) or naturally could be snake venom or diabetes.
What is this called? What is the dot? When would you see this?
Howell Jolly body. Remnant of a nucleus. Regenerative anemia.
What are the arrows pointing to? What is the knob? What happens when you have this?
Heniz bodies. Denatured Hb. Macrophages eat, causes anemia.
What is this? When is it seen normally? What causes this appearance?
Target cell. Regenerative anemia. Excess cell membrane.
What is this? Why do they look like this?
Ghost cell. No Hb. They are hemolyzed.
