Sample Question from The Urine Microscopic: Microscopic Analysis of Urine Sediment, presented by MediaLab

Cellular Elements

Question

All of the following are characteristic of WBCs under high power (40x) brightfield microscopy except that they:

Please select the single best answer

	are about twice the size of RBC's.
	appear as round granular spheres.
	may appear in clumps.
	are usually in the lymphocytic series.

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