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Rouleaux formation on wet smear. Rouleaux (singular is rouleau) are stacks or aggregations of red blood cells (RBCs) that form because of the unique discoid shape of the cells in vertebrates.
Blood smear showing red blood cells with basophilic stippling. Basophilic stippling, also known as punctate basophilia, is the presence of numerous basophilic granules that are dispersed through the cytoplasm of erythrocytes in a peripheral blood smear.
Top (left) and bottom (right) retainers Vacuum form retainer in the foreground (used on upper); illustration of an early Hawley retainer in the background. Orthodontic retainers are custom-made devices, usually made of wires or clear plastic, that hold teeth in position after surgery or any method of realigning teeth.
There are multiple methods of washing red cells. [2] These can include automated or manual methods. They can use centrifugation or centrifugation-free methods. [2] The red cells can be re-suspended in saline or other types of special preservative solutions for red cells, such as SAGM (saline, adenine, glucose and mannitol).
A – Cabot ring B – Howell-Jolly body Cabot ring Cabot rings are thin, red-violet staining, threadlike strands in the shape of a loop or figure-8 that are found on rare occasions in red blood cells (erythrocytes).
Automatic ESR analyzer with specialised tube. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR or sed rate) is the rate at which red blood cells in anticoagulated whole blood descend in a standardized tube over a period of one hour.
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A stye, also known as a hordeolum, is a bacterial infection of an oil gland in the eyelid. [4] This results in a red tender bump at the edge of the eyelid. [1] [5] The outside or the inside of the eyelid can be affected.