释义 |
cytologycy‧tol‧o‧gy /saɪˈtɒlədʒi $ -ˈtɑː-/ noun [uncountable] cytologyOrigin: 1800-1900 Greek kytos ‘hollow container’ + English -logy - In 1949 Lemon and Byrne reported a large series of patients undergoing duodenal aspiration cytology with a test sensitivity of over 70%.
- Methods are obviously required to improve the sensitivity of diagnostic biliary cytology.
- Multiple sampling for exfoliative cytology has been shown to improve the sensitivity of the technique but is time consuming.
- None of the 15 patients subsequently shown to have benign disease had positive cytology.
- One third of the patients with cholangiocarcinoma and a quarter of those with cancer of the pancreas had positive cytology.
- Percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology is, however, highly operator dependent.
- The possible dissemination of tumour by percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology may result in these becoming the diagnostic techniques of choice.
► Microbes/Genetics/Biochembacillus, nounbacteria, nounbacteriology, nounchromosome, nounclone, nounclone, verbcross, verbcrossbreed, verbcrossbreed, nouncross-fertilize, verbculture, nouncytology, nounDNA, noundominant, adjectivedouble helix, nounfraternal twin, noungamete, noungene, noungenetic, adjectivegenetically modified, adjectivegenetic code, noungenetic engineering, noungenetic modification, noungenetics, noungenome, noungenotype, noungerm, nounGM, adjectivehereditary, adjectiveheredity, nounhybrid, nounidentical twin, nounincubate, verbinheritance, nouninsecticide, nounmicrobe, nounMRSA, nounmutant, nounmutate, verbmutation, nounnucleic acid, nounparthenogenesis, nounpasteurized, adjectivepathogen, nounpesticide, nounplasma, nounprotozoan, nounptomaine, nounrecessive, adjectiveRNA, nounsalmonella, nounsuperbug, nountoxin, nountransgenic, adjectivevirus, nounweedkiller, nounX chromosome, nounY chromosome, nounzygote, noun the scientific study of cells from living things—cytologist noun [countable] |