10-8 Blood and hematopoiesis

BLOOD CELLS

EOSINOPHILS

The upper image shows a nucleated cell that is slightly larger than a red blood cell. Its nucleus has usually two lobes united by a thib strand of chromatin - hover your cursor over the image to distinguish them.

The cytoplasm contains a large number of large granules, the specific granules of eosinophils that stain well with eosin and have an orange color.

A cell with these features can only be an eosinophil.

Bottom image: eosinophil.

Blood smear. Staining: Leishman. Large magnification.

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