oral smear

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   alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the mouth

   Broaderalimentary tract smear

Questions about oral smear

What does oral smear mean?

oral smear means "alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the mouth".

Is oral smear a common word?

oral 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.