Wrights-stained Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover Wrights-stained and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| In a Wright's-stained smear, Pappenheimer bodies must be differentiated from basophilic stippling and Howell-Jolly bodies. Pick the statement which best describes each of the following. | View Page |
| Match the following terms with the correct definition. | View Page |
| On a Wright's-stained smear, the blue/gray appearing non-nucleated red cells are called: | View Page |
| What is Basophilic Stippling? On a Wright's-stained smear, the presence of multiple dark blue particles or granules of varying size, scattered throughout the cytoplasm of erythrocytes in the reticulocyte stage is called basophilic stippling. There are two types of stippling, fine or diffuse, and coarse or punctate. The erythrocyte containing them may stain normally in other respects or it may be polychromatophilic.
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