cytology
Americannoun
noun
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the study of plant and animal cells, including their structure, function, and formation
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the detailed structure of a tissue, as revealed by microscopic examination
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The latest scientific evidence shows that screening for HPV is better than screening for abnormal cytology with a smear test.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023
In Northern Ireland, a less sensitive test called cytology continues to be used which examines the cells under a microscope.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022
Two years later, he received a master’s degree from Texas Tech in cytology, the study of cells.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
The fusion of genetics and cytology came in the 1910s, when Thomas Hunt Morgan and his colleagues mapped the chromosomal locations of fruit-fly mutations.
From Nature ● Apr. 15, 2019
The cytology of zygospore-formation is not known in detail; the so-called gametes which fuse are multinucleate and are no doubt of the nature of gametangia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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