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The branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells
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cytology
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ 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 ...
WordNet
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n. the branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cytology (from Greek , kytos , "a hollow"; and , -logia ) is the study of cells . Cytology is that branch of life science that deals with the study of cells in terms of structure, function and chemistry. Robert Hooke is sometimes seen as the father of cytology. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biology English) The study of cells. 2 cytopathology.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1857, from cyto- + -logy . Related: Cytologist (1884).
Usage examples of cytology.
At last Tooney Blake hit upon Cyfer, a compression of Cytology Ferment.
When he was not toiling at the cuckoo-clock factory, most of his spare time was spent either in his workshop or at the public library poring laboriously over treatises on genetics, cytology, cytogenetics, biochemistry, and any number of other subjects he did not understand-but which his subconscious absorbed very effectively indeed.
When the best microscopes could barely resolve nerve fibres, this was not a problem: but the devil lies in the detail, and with electron micrographs taking us down to the macromolecular level of cytology, and with biochemistry finally beginning to explain how everything works, the brain was revealed for what it is--a mass of fleshy endocrine cells squirting their neurotransmitter messages at one another in promiscuous abandon.
They're over in the Cytology lab, which operates on bankers' hours.
Although he was interested in reading about the Papsmear, or Papanicolaou Smear, he wasn't interested in an exhaustive textbook of cytology.