cytology

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This newer HPV test is regarded as a better indicator than cytology of identifying who is a higher risk of developing cervical cancer.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024

Dr McGalie said: "Where cytology can pick up 16 in every 20 abnormalities, primary HPV screening will pick up 18, so it is a better test."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2024

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