cytologic smear

Questions about cytologic smear

What does cytologic smear mean?

cytologic smear means "a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope".

What is another word for cytologic smear?

Close synonyms include smear, cytosmear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cytologic smear a common word?

cytologic smear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.