What morphologically abnormal red blood cell is associated with "hyperchromia"?

Spherocyte - it is the only red blood cell ("RBC" or "erythrocyte") associated with hyperchromia. Morphologically sphere-shaped rather than bi-concave disc shaped (normal RBC shape), it has - by definition - a higher than normal concentration of hemoglobin for its cell volume. "Hyperchromia," an increase in RBC color, results from the increased hemoglobin concentration within a spherocyte.

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Cheryl Perkins

Too complicated for the average quizzer.

Stephen Liebman

Could not understand the question or the answer to this "trivia" (?) question. Does not belong here!

Ken Murray

Could someone translate this for me please.

Janette Will

Got it wrong. Learned something new though.

lady draggon

Again too little information in the answer

Helga U. Williams

Not really trivia, more a question for a medical professional. I missed it. 🤣

Kath Thomson

The cells in the pic looked circular so I picked the correct answer but don't really understand the question or the answer. This is a trivia quiz so we need plain English, not scientific gobbledygook!

Akeel1701

Pat Wells, that's exactly what I said, before I saw your comment

Akeel1701

This is a question for Haematologists, I suspect

Pat Wells

Good question for hematologists; for the rest of us, not so much.

Lawanta

The information link no longer existd!

Coral Harvey

I once suffered from macrocytic aneamic so knew one of these was correct. Thanks Quiz club.

Barb Schmidt

4yrs later for, so this was to hard, ok get it if you do not know the human body and well a doctor or someone in medical field, yet then wonder how many of the same ones complaining to hard are the ones that will really go off on "not in kindergarten or preschool or..." as to dang easy, and yes get that to, esp when answer in in pic... cant win with to hard or easy, or seems too, when more than 1 answer or totally wrong for all answers or whatever... and yes, have reported many times... so well, complain away and downvote all ya want...

Susan Lake-Harris

Cheryl Perkins, but that's what can make a good question - something that's a bit more challenging than usual (and given Carol and co, that's not a bad thing!) LoL!!