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poikilocyte

 [poi´kĭ-lo-sīt″]
an abnormally shaped erythrocyte, such as a burr cell, sickle cell, target cell, acanthocyte, elliptocyte, schistocyte, spherocyte, or stomatocyte.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

poi·ki·lo·cyte

(poy'ki-lō-sīt'),
A red blood cell of irregular shape.
[poikilo- + G. kytos, cell]
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poi·ki·lo·cyte

(poy'ki-lō-sīt)
A red blood cell of irregular shape.
[poikilo- + G. kytos, cell]
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Peripheral blood smear showed predominantly normocytic, normochromic RBCs with small numbers of teardrop poikilocytes and nucleated RBCs.
Peripheral blood smear showed predominantly normocytic, normochromic, red cells, no nucleated RBCs and small numbers of teardrop poikilocytes. There were no abnormal WBCs and platelets were moderately reduced.
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However, no leukoerythroblastic picture or tear-drop poikilocytes were seen.
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(5.) Rodgers MS, Cheng C, Kass L Elliptocytes and tailed poikilocytes correlate with severity of iron-deficiency anemia.
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Complete hemogram shows Normocytic normochromic anemia with sickle cells, poikilocytes, target cells, fragmented RBC and no haemoparasites.
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It is much easier to classify 100 individual cells and identify a few red cell poikilocytes than to make an educated decision about whether relevant findings are present.
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