What term is used to describe a variation in the size of RBCs?
a. Anisocytosis
b. Microcytosis
c. Spherocytosis
d. Poikilocytosis
ANS: A
Anisocytosis is a significant variation in the size of red cells; it does not indicate what those variations are (e.g., normocytic and microcytic, normocytic and macrocytic). The red blood cell distribution width (RDW) should be increased to correlate with this finding.
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