Acanthocyte Erythrocyte identified by numerous spiny cytoplasmic projections; similar to a Burr cell ... Abnormal tendency of an RBC to be dyed by a variety of laboratory stains Red Blood Cell ...

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Sickle cell disease occurs when a child inherits two sickle cell genes—one from each parent. Lillian knew she carried the ...

Medically reviewed by Benjamin Leach, MD Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is a rare cancer that begins in the ...

Recent peer-reviewed study supports what patients shared with their own voices: Automated red blood cell exchange improves the l ...

RBCs with abnormal morphology may be removed from ... An estimate of the concentration of hemoglobin in grams per 100 ml of packed red blood cells, normal adult value is between 32 and 36% This ...

These rods cause a person's red blood cells to take on a deformed, sickle-like shape, thus giving the disease its name. The rigid, misshapen blood cells do not carry oxygen well, and they also ...

The winning photograph shows red blood cells trapped in a mesh of fibrin fibres, with one cell compressed into a heart shape by the contracting fibres around it. Each year in the UK about 100,000 ...

When someone inherits two mutant copies of the hemoglobin gene, the abnormal form of the hemoglobin protein causes the red blood cells to lose oxygen and warp into a sickle shape during periods of ...

Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in ... between normal and sickle-cell haemoglobin. Nature 180, 326–328 (1957) ——. Abnormal human haemoglobins.