cytology

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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

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 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

With all its mastery of the laws of heredity, of cytology, and of embryology, it cannot tell why a man is a man, and a dog is a dog.

From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John