CYTOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cytology mean? 

• CYTOLOGY (noun)
  The noun CYTOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells

  Familiarity information: CYTOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYTOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cytology" is a kind of...):

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

microscopic anatomy (the study of microscopic structures of tissues and organs)

Domain member category:

stainability ((cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes)

fix (kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study)

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

cytogenetics (the branch of biology that studies the cellular aspects of heredity (especially the chromosomes))

Derivation:

cytologic; cytological (of or relating to the science of cytology)

 Context examples 

An adenosquamous lung carcinoma detectable by sputum cytology only.

(Occult Adenosquamous Lung Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Cells exhibit features of mast cells; Lesion has characteristic cytology: uniform, closely packed cells with round nuclei and clear abundant cytoplasm with or without granules

(Mouse Mast Cell Hematopoietic Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Clonal proliferations arising from cutaneous hair follicles composed in part of cells with basaloid cytology that exhibit features of hair follicle differentiation but are not easily classified as one of the above variants.

(Other Variants of Basaloid Follicular Neoplasm of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A large cell lung carcinoma detectable by sputum cytology only.

(Occult Large Cell Lung Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A lung adenocarcinoma detectable by sputum cytology only.

(Occult Lung Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A small cell lung carcinoma detectable by sputum cytology only.

(Occult Small Cell Lung Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-small cell lung carcinoma detectable by sputum cytology only.

(Occult Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A lung carcinoma detectable by sputum cytology or bronchial washings only.

(Occult Lung Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

"In fact, the computer analysis of the images was better at identifying precancer than a human expert reviewer of Pap tests under the microscope (cytology)."

(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)

Its detection in bronchial lavage specimens was shown to predict predicts the presence of a neoplasm with 96% sensitivity and 82% specificity earlier than routine chest X rays or sputum cytology.

(Monoclonal Antibody 703D4, NCI Thesaurus)