All the white blood cells are able to move like an amoeba, and can migrate out of blood vessels into the surrounding tissues. Note-it is easy to confuse the different leucocytes in blood smears. To identify them, you need to look for the shape of the nucleus, and compare their size, relative to that of a red blood cell.
peri-. a prefix meaning âabout,â âaroundâ (perimeter; periscope), âenclosing,â âsurroundingâ (pericardium), ânearâ (perigee; perihelion).
Peri is a suffix that means about. So perinatal would mean about the time of birth. Peri is a suffix that means about. So perinatal would mean about the time of birth.