<prompt> The peripheral blood smear is characteristic of:ThalassemiaHereditary spherocytosisSickle cell anemiaG6PD deficiency  <response>: Hereditary SpherocytosisPeripheral blood smear. Note the anisocytosis and several hyperchromic spherocytes. Howell-Jolly bodies small nuclear remnants are also present in the red cells of this asplenic patient.Robins Textbook of pathology 10th ed Page 442 