hematology
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| Reticulocyte | Immature RBC, still contain organells, stain grey-blue, <1% of RBC's
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| nRBC | nucleated red blood cell, seen during severe anemia, shows as a nucleated WBC on differential leukocyte ct.
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| Cobalt | ruminants, B-12 molecule, excess causes polycythemia
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| Polycythemia | decrease in RBC
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| Anisocytosis | a medical term meaning that a patient's red blood cells are of unequal size. This is found in anemia and other blood conditions
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| Polychromasia | variation in the hemoglobin content of erythrocytes.
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| Hypochromasia | abnormal decrease in the hemoglobin content of the erythrocytes. Pale color
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| Poikilocytosis | presence in the blood of erythrocytes showing abnormal variation in shape; acanthocyte, echinocyte, leptocyte, spherocyte, schistocyte
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| acanthocyte | A red blood cell characterized by multiple spiny cytoplasmic projections and found in acanthocytosis dogs and liver disease.
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| echinocyte | burr cell, crenated or dehydrated, improper blood smear
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| Leptocyte | An abnormally thin or flattened red blood cell having a central rounded pigmented area, a middle pigmentless zone, and a pigmented edge. Target and folded cells
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| Spherocyte | a small, globular, completely hemoglobinated erythrocyte without the usual central pallor characteristically found in hereditary spherocytosis but also in acquired hemolytic anemia. rigid, destroyed by spleen
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| Schistocytes | RBC fragments, assoc with anemia
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| Howell Jolly bodies | RBC with nuclear remnants, increase in RBC regenerative anemia, depressed spleenic function. These are nuclear remnants, left behind when the nucleus was extruded from the erythroblast. Dark stained belly buttons.
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| heinz bodies | Intraerythrocytic denatured hemoglobin, new methlyene blue, inclusion bodies resulting from oxidative injury to and precipitation of hemoglobin; Heinz bodies (arrows) project from the surface of red blood cells nose/nipple
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| Agglutination | clumping of RBC's, AIHA, Coombs test
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| Rouleaux | rolos, stacks of coin appearance, increase in protein and fibrinogen normal in equines
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| Polycythemia | increase in RBC, may be due to dehydration
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| MCV | Mean corpuscular vol; MCV = PCV * 10 / RBC
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| Mean corpuscular hemoglobin | Mean weight of Hb contained in avg RBC; MCH = Hb * 10/RBC(millions)
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| Mean corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration | concentration of Hb in avg RBC; color intensity; MCHC = Hb * 100/ PCV %
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| Hypochromic | < Hb is greater then the avg decrease in RBC volume
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| Anemia | regenrative; non-regenerative; pale MM, exercise intolerence; lethargy
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