A healthy individual has his blood drawn as a part of a routine physical.The laboratician performing the differential notes a neutrophil with a nucleus that appears dumbbell shaped.After scanning the entire slide,it appears that the vast majority of neutrophils have the same nuclei.All other leukocytes appear normal.The conclusion from this is that the patient has:

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The dumbbell-shaped nuclei observed in the patient's neutrophils are characteristic of Pelger-Huët anomaly, a benign inherited condition in which neutrophils have a reduced number of lobes in their nuclei. This anomaly causes the nuclei of neutrophils to assume a "dumbbell" shape, as seen in the patient's blood sample. The other choices do not fit the description of the observed anomaly.

A Healthy Individual Has His Blood Drawn as a Part