Erythrocytes | Red Blood Cells

Question 1

What is the most common cause of non regenerative anemia in cats?

Answer 1

FeLV

Question 2

What are Polychromataphils?

Answer 2

Immature Red Blood Cells. Normal Finding

Question 3

Answer 3

Agglutination

Question 4

What species does not do Polychromataphils?

Answer 4

Equine

Question 5

Immature Red Blood Cells Are Called?

Answer 5

Polychrompatophils and/or Polychromsia and/or Reticulocytes

Question 6

Answer 6

Rouleaux

Question 7

Answer 7

Polychromasia

Question 8

Answer 8

Hypochromasia

Question 9

Answer 9

Codocyte: Target Cells

Question 10

Answer 10

Knizocyte - Folded Cells

Question 11

Answer 11

Spherocytes

Question 12

Answer 12

Stomatocytes

Question 13

Answer 13

Acanthocytes - Spur Cells

Answer 14

Schistocytes

Answer 15

Echinocytes

Answer 16

Basophilic Stippling

Answer 17

Howell Jolly Bodies

Answer 18

Heinz Bodies

Question 19

What are Howell Jolly Bodies?

Answer 19

Nuclear remnants
Frequently seen when the body is responding to Anemia

Question 20

What are Heinz Bodies?

Answer 20

Denatured hemoglobin referred to as RBC refractile bodies

Question 21

A dark spot on the nucleus in an erythrocyte is called? & a sign of what?

Answer 21

Nucleoli – A sign of metabolic growth & activity

Question 22

When does hemoglobin production start?

Answer 22

Prorubricyte

Question 23

Another name for a Nucleated red blood cell (NRBC)?

Answer 23

Metarubricyte

Question 24

Another name for a Polychromatophil?

Answer 24

Reticulocyte

Question 25

How long does a mature erythrocyte stay in circulation?

Answer 25

90-120 Days

Question 26

Howell-Jolly bodies are normal in about 1% of cells in which species?

Answer 26

Felines/Cats