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Peripheral smear blood tests are part of a battery of different assessments that can be used to identify blood diseases. But these days, they’re not the first-line option, in most cases.

In that time, the defence said, someone else caused those fatal injuries. But Knight gave evidence that the blood smears on the hallway walls looked like it had been applied to the wall with fabric.

Doctors may also order a peripheral blood smear test to examine the shape and size of red blood cells under a microscope. In sickle cell anemia, the blood smear reveals the presence of sickle ...