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Blood smear, sickle cell anemia.
This specimen represents a tissue smear, rather than a section. A drop of blood is placed on the slide and simply smeared across the surface. Ideally this technique creates a single layer of evenly-spaced cells. In practice, different locations in the smear have different quality. You should look for a place where the cells are neither packed together nor clumped but are more-or-less evenly spaced.
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