Practical Flashcards
Identify the maturation stage of the granulocytic series

Seg
Identify the maturation stage of the granulocytic series

Metamyelocyte (neutrophil)
- Notice how the indentation is < 50% of the diameter of the cell
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Teardrop
Identify the maturation stage of the erythrocytic series

Reticulocyte or retic for short
- This is a Wright stain
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Schistocytes
- Literally just fragments
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Blister cell
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Hemoglobin SC crystals
Identify the RBC inclusion(s)

Trick question! It’s plasmodium species found in patients with malaria
Identify the RBC inclusion(s)

Basophilic stippling
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Spherocytes
Identify the maturation stage of the erythrocytic series

Mature RBC
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Acanthocytes
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Bite cell
- Remember, this is a type of schistocyte
Identify the cells that comprise a normal WBC differential
- Seg
- Monocytes
- Lymphocytes
- Bands
- Eosinophils
- Basophils
Identify the RBC inclusion(s)

Howell-Jolly bodies
Identify the two maturation phases of the erythrocytic series
- What is the one on the right? The left?
R: rubriblast
L: prorubricyte
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Rouleaux
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Stomatocytes
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Hemoglobin C crystals
Identify the RBC inclusion(s)

Cabot ring
Identify the maturation stage of the erythrocytic series

Rubricyte
- aka polychromatic normoblast
N: round w/ quite condensed chromatin
C: gray-blue b/c of hemoglobinization
Identify the maturation stage of the granulocytic series

Basophil
Identify the RBC inclusion(s)

Heinz bodies
Identify the maturation stage of the granulocytic series

Myeloblast
Identify the maturation stage of the granulocytic series

Promyelocyte
Identify the maturation stage of the granulocytic series

Myelocyte (neutrophil)
Identify the maturation stage of the erythrocytic series

Metarubricyte
- aka orthrochromic normoblast
N: round w/ fully condensed chromatin; eccentrically placed
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Target cells
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Elliptocytes
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Sickle cells
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Ovalcyte
Identify the maturation stage of the granulocytic series

Band
Identify the RBC inclusion(s)

Pappenheimer bodies
- Look carefully at how they’re clumped around the periphery of the cells
Identify the maturation stage of the granulocytic series

Eosinophil
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

Burr cells (echinocytes)
Identify the predominant type (or as indicated by the arrow) of poik

RBC clumping (or RBC agglutination)