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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Origin of cytology
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Researchers gently rub the parchment with a dry cytology brush, the same type of brush used for Pap smears.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The chance of abnormal cell changes developing in the time interval between routine smear appointments was around one in 1,000 with the HPV check, compared to around four in 1,000 with the traditional cytology check.
From BBC ● May 31, 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 contributions of cytology continued in the early twentieth century with the work of Walter Sutton.
From Nature ● Apr. 15, 2019
Lamarck had already, so far as he could without a knowledge of modern morphology, embryology, cytology, and histology, suggested those fundamental principles of transformism on which rests the selective principle.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
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