CYTOLOGIC SPECIMEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cytologic specimen mean? 

• CYTOLOGIC SPECIMEN (noun)
  The noun CYTOLOGIC SPECIMEN has 1 sense:

1. a specimen used for cytologic examination and diagnosis

  Familiarity information: CYTOLOGIC SPECIMEN used as a noun is very rare.

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• CYTOLOGIC SPECIMEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specimen used for cytologic examination and diagnosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cytologic specimen" is a kind of...):

specimen (a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cytologic specimen"):

cytologic smear; cytosmear; smear (a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope)