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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cytology
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.
▪ 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cytology

1857, from cyto- + -logy. Related: Cytologist (1884).

Wiktionary
cytology

n. 1 (context biology English) The study of cells. 2 cytopathology.

WordNet
cytology

n. the branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells

Wikipedia
Cytology

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.

Based on usage it can refer to:

  • Cytogenetics
  • Cytopathology: the study of cellular disease and the use of cellular changes for the diagnosis of disease.
  • Cell biology: the study of (normal) cellular anatomy, function and chemistry.

The International Academy of Cytology has as its official journal Acta Cytologica.

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.