cytology
/sʌɪˈtɒlədʒi
/noun [mass noun]
The branches of biology and medicine concerned with the structure and function of plant and animal cells.The laboratory medicine department of cytology at York Hospital also received a regional training award at the ceremony for its cervical screening work....
- Urine cytology showed transitional cells only, but a brush biopsy from the renal pelvis revealed atypical cells.
- Sputum cytology showed atypical cells suspicious of bronchogenic carcinoma.
Derivatives
cytological
/ adjective ...- Other notable cytological features are highly pleomorphic plastids and mitochondrial aggregates in the gametophytic placental cells.
- Histological and cytological studies confirmed the existence of diploid males in honeybees.
- The cytological map divides the chromosomes into numbered regions, which in turn are subdivided into lettered intervals.
cytologically
- Alien cytoplasms and chromosomes have been introduced into wheat by cytologically monitoring the chromosomal constitution of backcross progenies in interspecific hybrids.
- This structural heterozygosity correlates with both a previously described recombination block and cytologically visible unpaired chromosomes at pachytene.
- Using cytologically tagged chromosomes, we established a role for the microtubule motor dynein in meiotic chromosome segregation.
cytologist
/ noun ...- When Mendel's work was rediscovered in 1900, it must have been apparent to many cytologists and geneticists that the chromosomes in meiosis and fertilization obey Mendel's laws.
- Patterson, an embryologist, joined the Drosophila group as did the cytologist, Painter, who soon made an enormous contribution by exploiting the giant salivary gland chromosomes.
- Intraoperative interpretations were performed by either a boardcertified cytologist or a pathologist with informal cytology training.