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Why would you not expect to see tissue macrophages in a blood smear?
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Tissue macrophages reside in the tissues, not the blood. Tissue macrophages can't be seen because, macrophages as well as neutrophils are the only transient residents of the bloodstream, and more out of the circulation and into the tissues relatively quickly (within a few hours).
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Which type of white blood cell would you expect to be most common in a normal blood smear?
Neutrophils
What is blood smear?
A blood film or peripheral blood smear is a microscope slide made from a drop of blood, that allows the cells to be examined microscopically
What makes up blood smear?
Blood
What does blood in your pap smear mean?
It's not unusual for women to have a small amount of bleeding with their pap smear. On its own, blood in the pap smear has no clinical significance.
Do you have information about frog blood smear?
a frog blood smear reveals that its red blood cells are ovoid in nature as compared to the human RBCs that are spherical in nature. i think that's the main difference that u will find with a frog blood smear
What is the important of thin blood smear?
lllpp
Do they take your blood when you have a pap smear?
A blood sample is not part of the pap smear, which screens for cervical cancer. Blood tests may be recommended for patients at the office for their annual exams, however.
What white blood cell is most numerous in a normal blood smear?
Neutrophils
I had blood on the swob when you had a smear even thought you were not on a period and have been taking hormone tablets to stop me bleeding so i could have a smear test done but i have a cyst?
Blood on the swab is not unusual during a pap smear and has no clinical significance.
Shape of a human blood smear?
tongue shaped
The area of a blood smear that is tested is called the?
analyte
What would be observed in the blood smear of patient who has malaria?
sBoth thick and thin blood smears are taken from the finger tip of earlobe of malaria patient. This smear is kept in water to dissolve and remove the haemoglobin from the slide. The slide is stained and visualised under oil immersion lens to see the malaria parasites directly.
