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| erythrocytes (red blood cells) |
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| salmon-colored biconcave disks; anucleate, literally sacs of hemoglobin; most organelles have been ejected |
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| leukocytes (white blood cells) |
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| the only complete cells in the blood, they contain nuclei and organelles |
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| cytoplasm stains pale pink and contains fine granules, which are difficult to see; deep purple nucleus consists of three to seven lobes connected by thin strands of nucleoplasm |
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| red, coarse cytoplasmic granules; figure-8 shaped or bilobed nucleus stains blue-red |
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| cytoplasm has a few large blue-purple granules; U or S-shaped nucleus with constrictions, stains dark blue |
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| cytoplasm pale blue and appears as the rim around the nucleus; spherical or slightly indented dark purple-blue nucleus |
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| abundant gray-blue cytoplasm; dark blue-purple nucleus often kidney-shaped |
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| essentially irregularly shaped cell fragments; stain deep purple |
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