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RBC and WBC Morphology with 100- correct answers 2024
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Polychromatophils
- RBC morphology
- cytoplasms stain bluish to reddish-blue
- slightly larger than mature RBCs
- may have multiple infoldings or outfoldings of
membranes and can appear as bar or target cells
- present in high numbers in circulation during a
regenerative anemia - answer
Reticulocytes
- RBC morphology
- stain bluish-green in new methylene blue stains
- contain reticulum, irregular clumps of ribosomal
RNA and organelles such as mitochondria
- most species have one type of reticulocyte except
for cats which have 2, punctuate and aggregate -
answer
, Aggregate reticulocytes (red arrow)
- RBC morphology
- contain abundant reticulum - answer
Punctuate reticulocytes (green arrow)
- RBC morphology
- contain only a few isolated dots of reticulum that
do not coalesce - answer
Nucleated red blood cells
- RBC morphology
- circulate during regenerative response - answer
Basophilic stippling
- RBC morphology
- small, variably sized blue dots in cytoplasm of
RBCs
- usually the dots are from retained RNA
- most commonly seen in regenerative response
(mostly in ruminants but can also be found in other
species) - answer
Anisocytosis
- RBC morphology
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