• Anemia (Pernicous, Iron Deficiency, Blood loss, AutoImmune, Hemolytic)
• Erythrocytosis, Polycythemia

Size

• Microcytic
• Macrocytic

Color

• Hypochromic
• Polychromasia

Shape

• Sickle cell
• Target cells
• Spherocytes
• Smudge cells
• Stomatocytes
• Schistocytes
• Crenation
• Poikilocytes
• Acanthocyte
• Torocyte

Disorders and Disease indicators

• Parasitic infections
• Metarubricytes
• Reticulocytes
• Sedimentation rate changes

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Platelets

Numbers

• thrombocytopenia
• thrombocytosis
• thrombocythemia

Disorders

• Giant platelets
• microthrombocytes
• Gray platelet syndrome
• Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
• von Willibrand's Disease
• Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)

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WBCs

Number

• Neutrophilia, Neutropenia
• Eosinophilia, Eosinopenia
• Basophilia
• Monocytosis, Monocytopenia, Reactive Monocytes
• Lymphocytosis, Lymphocytopenia, Reactive Lymphocytes

Other Disorders

• Lymphoblastic leukemia (Acute and Chronic)
• Monoblastic leukemia
• Chronic granulomatous Disease
• Defects in phagocytosis
• Defects in chemotaxis
• Toxic changes : foaminess, vacuolation, toxic granules
• Abscence of granules
• Hypersegmentation of neutrophils

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