What is THE AREA THAT CELLS ARE EVENLY SPREAD AND THE TECH CAN EVALUATE THEIR MORPHOLOGY?
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THE THIN AREA OF A RBC DUE TO THE BICONCAVE SHAPE.
What is CENTRAL PALLOR?
100
THE WORST RBC PARASITE OF CATS, INTRACELLULAR PROTOZOAN, USUALLY FATAL, TRANSMITTED BY DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS.
What is CYTAUXZOON FELIS?
100
SEEN ON FEMALE NEUTROPHILS ATTACHED AT A TERMINAL LOBE.
What is A BARR BODY?
100
HEMATOPOIESIS OCCURS THROUGHOUT THE LIFE OF ADULT MAMMALS. TRUE OR FALSE?
What is TRUE?
200
THE BODY
What is AREA OF THE THICKEST ON A BLOOD SMEAR?
200
INCREASED CENTRAL PALLOR, POSSIBLE DECREASED MCHC.
What is HYPOCHROMASIA?
200
EXTRACELLULAR, GRAM NEGATIVE, CAUSES FATAL ANEMIA IN CATS, ADHERE TO RBC SURFACE, BEST TO MAKE A SMEAR FROM FRESH BLOOD BEFORE USING EDTA, APPEAR AS DARK BLUE COCCI, RODS, OR RINGS.
What is MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS? OR HAEMOBARTONELLA FELIS?
200
METAMYELOCYTES AND MYELOCYTES MAY BE PRESENT, INCREASED NUMBERS OF BANDS, CYTOPLASMIC TOXICITY.
What is A LEFT SHIFT?
200
THE FIRST MORPHOLOGICALLY RECOGNIZABLE ERYTHROID CELL.
What is RUBRIBLAST?
300
DARK SPOTS OR CLUMPS OF CYTOPLASMIC RNA
What is RETICULOCYTES?
300
INDICATED BY DECREASED MCV, SEEN WITH IRON DEFICIENCY.
What is MICROCYTOSIS?
300
MORE COMMON IN MALE CATS THAN FEMALE, AFFECTS ALL AGES BUT IS MORE COMMON IN CATS > 2YEARS OLD, MORE COMMON IN SPRING, SUMMER, AND FALL.
What is MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS?
300
CAT BITE ABSCESS, INFECTION BEGINS, THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE INVADES, THIS WBC IS THE HALLMARK OF ACUTE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE. FIRST RESPONDERS!!
What is A NEUTROPHIL?
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PRODUCED WHEN THERE IS A LACK OF OXYGEN TO THE TISSUES DUE TO ANEMIA, POOR OXYGENATION OF THE BLOOD, OR POOR RENAL PERFUSION.
What is ERYTHOPOIETIN?
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THEY REFLECT ACCELERATED ERYTHROPOIESIS BY APPEARING LARGER THAN NORMAL AND HAVE A BLUISH COLOR DUE TO THEIR RNA CONTENT.
What is POLYCHROMATOPHILS?
400
BOTH OF THESE MAY BE FORMED DUE TO TRAUMA WITHIN THE VASCULATURE.
What is SCHISTOCYTE AND KERATOCYTE?
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SEEN AS COCCI, RINGS, RODS, PEARS, AND MALTESE CROSSES, SPREAD BY IXODID TICKS TO CATTLE.
What is THEILERIA?
400
CAVAL SYNDROME DOG, BLOOD SMEAR PREPARED AND ANALYZED, INCREASE OF THIS CELL TYPE.
What is AN EOSINOPHIL?
400
USUALLY PRODUCED IN THE MARROW AS THE ANIMAL NEEDS THEM IN RESPONSE, SO THE RESERVE IS SMALL IN THE MARROW, USED TO DIFFERENTIATE INTO MACROPHAGES DURING INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS.
What is A MONOCYTE?
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IRREGULAR AREAS OF RBC'S THAT FORM AGGREGATES BECAUSE THEIR BINDING FORCES ARE MUCH STRONGER THAN ROULEAUX.
What is AGGLUTINATION?
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THESE HAVE A LOSS OF RBC MEMBRANE WITHOUT CORRESPONDING LOSS OF VOLUME, THE CELLS CANNOT FLATTEN OUT SO THEY HAVE A DECREASED DIAMETER. THEY MAY BE SEEN IN IMHA.
What is A SPHEROCYTE?
500
WHEN YOU SEE TARGET CELLS, POLYCHROMASIA, ANISOCYTOSIS, BANDS, METARUBRICYTES, INCREASED MCV, MACROCYTOSIS WITH A LOW PCV OR HCT.
What is REGENERATIVE ANEMIA?
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RELEASED DUE TO ANTIGENIC STIMULATION, THEY ARE INCREASED IN SIZE, MAY RESEMBLE MONOCYTES BUT ARE MORE BASOPHILIC.
What is A LYMPHOCYTE?
500
PRODUCED IN THE MARROW BUT MATURES IN THE TISSUES.