Abnormal RBCs Flashcards by Briana Lanzarotta

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Anisocytosis

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Variation in size

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Poikilocytosis

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Variation in shape

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Burr cells aka?

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Echinocytes

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Stomatocytes

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increased permeability to sodium or artifact

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Which cells are seen as artifacts?

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Burr and Stomatocytes

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Acanthocytes aka?

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Spur cells

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Tear drop cells aka?

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Dacrocytes

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Target cells aka?

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Codocytes

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Sickle cells aka?

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Drepanocytes

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Spur cells shape description

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point blob, irregular

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Tear drops are seen as

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macrophage leftovers

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Target cells formed due to

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increased RBC surface membrane

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Elliptocytes description

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darker and skinner than ovaloytes

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Schistocytes aka?

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RBC fragments

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Spherocyte; central pallar or no?

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No central pallar

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Spherocyte increased?

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Increased MCHC makes a darker appearance

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Polychromasia increased?

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Increase in polychromatophilic RBCs

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Polychromasia what color?

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blue/ purple tinged RBCs

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Basophilic stipplings composed of?

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aggregated ribosomes

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Basophilic stipplings covers how much of the cell?

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Throughout the cell

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Pappenheimer bodies composed of?

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Iron granules

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Pappenheimer bodies confirmed by which stain?

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Prussian blue stain

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Pappernheimer bodies covers how much of the cell?

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in clusters, multiple areas

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Howell-Jolly bodies composed of?

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DNA remnants

Howell-Jolly bodies cover how much of the cell?

One spot, a circular dot

Heinz bodies is apart of which pathway?

Heinz bodies composed of?

Denatured/ precipitation hemoglobin

Heinz bodies only seen on what stain?

Supravital stain

HGB C crystals composed of?

Precipitation hemoglobin C

Cabot Ring composed of?

Remnants of mitotic spindle fibers

Agglutination composed of?

Cold agglutinins

Agglutination causes?

High MCV (size) and low RBC counts

Rouleaux seen in?

Patients with high proteins

Rouleaux does what with plasma?

Replaces plasma with saline

Which proteins seen in rouleaux?

Fibrinogen and Igs