Special Procedures: Brilliant Cresyl Blue Stain

Hemoglobin H bodies

Hemoglobin H bodies are seen as faint blue inclusions.
They appear to be on the outside of the cell, resembling sugar on a gumdrop; but they are just inside the cell's membrane and push outward.

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