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Echinocyte (from the Gr**** word echinos,
meaning 'hedgehog' or 'sea urchin'), in
human biology and medicine,
refers to a form of red
blood cell that has...
- projections. A
similar term is spur cells.
Often they may be
confused with
echinocytes or schistocytes.
Acanthocytes have co****,
irregularly spaced, variably...
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blood cells.
Acanthocytes or Spur/Spike
cells Codocytes or
Target cells Echinocytes and Burr
cells Elliptocytes and
Ovalocytes Spherocytes Stomatocytes or...
- smaller, more numerous,
regularly irregular projections of
echinocytes.
Acanthocytes and
echinocytes may
arise from
abnormalities of the cell
membrane lipids...
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affects the
survival of red
blood cells and
causes them to
deform into
echinocytes on
peripheral blood smears. Rh
deficiency syndrome Rh
deficiency syndrome...
- 2002). [5] G. Lim, M. Wortis, and R. Mukhopadhyay, Stomatocyte–discocyte–
echinocyte sequence of the
human red
blood cell:
Evidence for the bilayer–couple...
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Maxwell Wintrobe credited Bessis with
coining the
terms stomatocyte,
echinocyte and discocyte.
Bessis wrote that "The
doctor who
knows how to see can...
- cells,
resulted in a
rapid decline in
cellular glutathione,
formation of
echinocytes and
damage to the
membrane skeleton. This
resulted in a
decrease in haematocrit...
