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Red Blood Cells

Navigate to different pages to learn all about red blood cells, including red blood cell lineage, indices, morphology, potential inclusions, and artifacts. Different lab posts about red blood cells can also be found at the bottom.

Red Blood Cell Lineage

Pronormoblast (Rubriblast)

Rubriblast, Nucleated Red Blood Cell

Basophilic Normoblast (Prorubricyte)

Prorubricyte, Nucleated Red Blood Cell

Polychromatophilic Normoblast (Rubricyte)

Rubricyte, Nucleated Red Blood Cell

Orthochromatic Normoblast (Metarubricyte)

Metarubricyte, Nucleated Red Blood Cell

Polychromatophilic Erythrocyte (Reticulocyte)

Reticulocyte, Polychromasia, Polychromatophilic Red Blood Cell

Mature Erythrocyte

Normocytic Normochromic red blood cells with lymphocyte for comparison

Indices

Normocytic / Normochromic

Normocytic Normochromic red blood cells with lymphocyte for comparison

Anisocytosis

RBC Morphology based on Indices, RDW, Anisocytosis

Microcytosis

Microcytic Red Blood Cell Morphology with lymphocyte for comparison.

Macrocytosis

RBC Morphology based on Indices, MCV, Macrocytosis

Hypochromasia

RBC Morphology based on Indices, Low MCHC, Hypochromasia, Increased Central Pallor

RBC Morphology

Acanthocytes

Acanthocytes, Red Blood Cell Morphology

Blister & Bite Cells

Blister cell morphology for red blood cells

Burr Cells

Burr cells, red blood cell morphology

Elliptocytes / Ovalocytes

Elliptocytes/Ovalocytes, red blood cell morphology

Schistocytes

Schistocytes, red blood cell morphology

Sickle Cells

Sickle Cells, red blood cell morphology

Spherocytes

Spherocytes, red blood cell morphology

Stomatocytes

Stomatocytes, red blood cell morphology

Target Cells

Target Cells, red blood cell morphology

Teardrop Cells

Teardrop cells, red blood cell morphology

Agglutination

Red blood cells on a slide agglutinating/clumping together from a cold agglutinin.

Polychromasia

Polychromasia, polychromatophilic red blood cells

Rouleaux

Rouleaux, red blood cell morphology

RBC Inclusions

Babesia

Babesia in red blood cells from cdc.gov

Image from cdc.gov

Basophilic Stippling

Coarse Basophilic Stippling, red blood cell inclusions

Cabot Rings

Cabot Ring, red blood cell inclusion

Hemoglobin C

Image from medical-labs.net

Howell-Jolly Bodies

Howell-Jolly Bodies, Red blood cell inclusions

Malaria

Image from horiba.com

Pappenheimer Bodies

Pappenheimer bodies, red blood cell inclusion

Artifacts

Stain Precipitate

Stain precipitate artifact among red blood cells

Bacterial Contamination

Bacterial contamination in peripheral blood smear

Water Artifact

water artifact, red blood cell morphology

Overlying Platelet

overlying platelet on red blood cell

Artifactual Teardrops

Artifactual teardrops, red blood cell morphology

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