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ORAL SMEAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oral smear mean?
• ORAL SMEAR (noun)
The noun ORAL SMEAR has 1 sense:
1. alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the mouth
Familiarity information: ORAL SMEAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the mouth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("oral smear" is a kind of...):
alimentary tract smear (any of several cytologic smears obtained from different parts of the alimentary tract; obtained by specialized lavage techniques and used mainly to diagnose cancer in those parts)
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