duodenal smear

1. 1.

   alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the duodenum

   Synonymsparaduodenal smear

   Broaderalimentary tract smear

Questions about duodenal smear

What does duodenal smear mean?

duodenal smear means "alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the duodenum".

What is another word for duodenal smear?

Close synonyms include paraduodenal smear. 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 duodenal smear a common word?

duodenal 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.