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Typically blood smears contain a much smaller number (100s).
by frozenport 10y ago
Typically blood smears contain a much smaller number (100s).
- imaginenore 10y agoWe're talking multiple drops of blood from the finger. An average drop is around 50 microliters. There's absolutely no way you end up with just hundreds of cells.
- frozenport 10y agoExcept that's that's what I see when I make a buffy coated slide. There are even protocols when you get too few cells, see https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.austincc.edu/mlt/hem/hem_Lab_Counting%2520to%2520100_Fa15.doc&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjWsKvIodXMAhWCbj4KHdJmDo8QFggPMAE&usg=AFQjCNERR97lteYekmEaVNEo85f0LcuLUg https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.austincc.edu/mlt/hem...