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Created page with "<section begin="clinical biochemistry" />'''Blood smear''', sometimes called '''peripheral blood smear''' (probably to distinguish it from a bone marrow aspirate?) is a Giemsa stained thin film of blood on a glass microscopic slide. It allows morphological examination of blood cells and platelets. It's used in the evaluation of anaemia and leukaemia. In many types of anaemia there is abnormal morphology of the red blood cells, like in sickle cell anaemia, here..."