Exercise 5 Flashcards
What is the size and shape of rbc
7-8 micro biconcave disc, round or oval
Nucleus and color of rbc
Non-nucleated, colorless, or greenish when unstained.
Appearance of RBC
Appear swollen or crenated
Size and shape of leukocytes/pus cells/PMNs
10-21 micro, round or slightly oval bodies with irregular outline.
Cytoplasm of leukocytes/pus cells/PMNs
Refractile, clear and granular with a lobed nucleus
What does the large amount of leukocytes PMNs indicate?
Inflammation
What does the large amounts of eosinophil indicate?
Immune response to a parasitic infection
Size of yeast
Usually appear in?
Color?
5-8 micro bodies often with buds
In cluster of 3-6 small granules,
brownish red with iodine
Description of oil/fat droplet
Layers
Color and reagent used
Perfectly round
Highly refractile
Sizes vary
No internal structure
Several layers
Stains orange to red with Sudan III
Description of air bubbles
Air bubbles
Perfectly round
Refractile
Sizes vary
No internal structure
Enumerate the mistaken for cyst
Red Blood Cells
Leukocytes/PusCell/PMNs
Yeast
Oil/Fat Droplet
Air Bubbles
Mistaken for amebic trophozoite
Macrophages/Phagocytes
Cytoplasm if hyaline, uninucleated, vacuolated and may contain rbc.
Macro/Phago
Macrophage and Phagocytes
Cytoplasm:
Nucleus:
Vacuol:
Contain:
Motility:
Accompanied by:
Found:
Hyaline
Uninucleated
Vacuolated
RBC
Sluggish motility but may send out pseudopods
PMNs
Mucopurulent stools
A colorless, hyaline rectangular or oval cells with double contour and chlorophyll bodies.
No internal structure.
Vegetable Cells
It has a narrow epty central canal between two transparent refractile layers
Plant Hairs
A component of plant xylem which are easily recognized by their spiral apperance or rectangular markings
Vegetable spirals/fibers
Vegetable spiral is recognized with their?
Spiral appearance or rectangular markings
size
color
shape
cutting
(of plant hair)
Plant hair
Size
shape
color
appear
(starch granule)
50-100 micro
round or oval but elongated with irregular outline.
translucent, colorless or greyish yellow but appears violet or blue black with iodine
appear sac-like granules as seen in potato starch
size
shape
appear
(muscle fiber)
100-200 micro
oval or rectangular with rounded corners, short cylinder with faint cross striations.
appear yellow in color, stains red with eosin
size is variable, have peculiar and distinctive geometrical shapes. some have saw-like or rounded projections
pollen grains and fungus spores
