Oral red blood cells

Mouth-shaped red blood cells (stomatocyte): There are cracks in the center of red blood cells, and the pale area in the center is flat and flat, which looks like an open mouth or fish mouth. See you in normal people. If there are more mouth-shaped erythrocytes in the blood smear, it is found in hyperlipidemia. A small amount can be seen in diffuse intravascular coagulation (DIC), alcoholism.

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