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poikilocyte

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poikilocyte /poi·ki·lo·cyte/ (-sīt) an abnormally shaped erythrocyte, such as a burr cell, sickle cell, target cell, acanthocyte, elliptocyte, schistocyte, spherocyte, or stomatocyte.
poi·ki·lo·cyte (poik-l-st, poi-kl-)
n.
A red blood cell of irregular shape.

poikilocyte [poi´kĭ-lo-sīt″]
an abnormally shaped erythrocyte, such as a burr cell, sickle cell, target cell, acanthocyte, elliptocyte, schistocyte, spherocyte, or stomatocyte.

poikilocyte
an abnormally shaped erythrocyte.


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These include nucleated red cells, sickle cells and other poikilocytes.
Rodgers MS, Cheng C, Kass L Elliptocytes and tailed poikilocytes correlate with severity of iron-deficiency anemia.
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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