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poikilocyte

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poikilocyte [ˈpɔɪkɪləʊˌsaɪt]
n
(Medicine / Pathology) an abnormally shaped red blood cell
[from Greek poikilos various + -cyte]
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These include nucleated red cells, sickle cells and other poikilocytes.
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Rodgers MS, Cheng C, Kass L Elliptocytes and tailed poikilocytes correlate with severity of iron-deficiency anemia.
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It is much easier to classify 100 individual cells and identify a few red cell poikilocytes than to make an educated decision about whether relevant findings are present.
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