| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Toxic Granulation | Small, dark staining granules within cytoplasm of bands and segs - Stress states |
| Dohle bodies | Light blue inclusions in cytoplasm of segs - Stress states |
| Hypersegmentation | >5 lobes - megaloblastic anemia & vit b12 and folate deficiency |
| Pelger-Huet Anomaly | Hyposegmentation - <2 lobes, normal in function |
| May-Heggelin Anomaly | Large Dohle-like bodies in segs, giant platelets |
| Chediak-Higashi Syndrome | Large red/purple granules in segmented neutrophils, rare & fatal |
| Alder-Reilly | Purple/red granules in granulocytes - seen with Hunter and Hurler syndromes |
| Pyknotic Nucleus | Segs with condensed dark nuclues - seen after infections |
| Barr Bodies | Small drumstick on neutrophil - second X chromosome in females |
Combine with other sets
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