The white blood cell in this image of a blood smear is a monocyte, the largest of the white cells. It is characterized by a large, horseshoe-shaped nucleus, surrounded by a large amount of granule-free cytoplasm. Also present are several small and one large groups of platelets.
Stain = Wright's Blood Stain.
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