cytology

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If HPV is detected a cytology test is used to check for any abnormal cells.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2023

Cancer Research UK said that as HPV primary testing is more accurate and sensitive than cytology, it would encourage the transition to happen "as soon as possible".

From BBC • Nov. 7, 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

A. Phycomycetes.—Most of the recent work of importance in this group deals with the cytology of sexual reproduction and of spore-formation, and the effect of external conditions on the production of reproductive organs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various