This image shows a blood smear stained with Wright's stain, which is a polychrome stain consisting of a mixture of mixture of azures and eosin. The azures stain the DNA and RNA of the cell nuclei blue, while eosin stains stains proteins pink.
Azures also stain basophilic cytoplasmic granules in some cells metachromatically purple.
To its left is a neutrophil , characterized by a multilobed nucleus. Below and to the left is a small lymphocyte , with a thin rim of blue-stained cytoplasm. Wright's Return to Histological Staining and Cell Structure Return to the Table of Contents.