Cytopathologyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From cyto- +‎ pathology.

名詞

cytopathology (countable and uncountable, plural cytopathologies)

1. (cytology, pathology) The branch of pathology that deals with abnormalities of cells, independently of the tissue architecture from which they came, as for example in aspiration biopsy such as fine-needle aspiration.
   • 2018, Douglas P. Fine, Complement Infectious Diseases:

     Immune serum could block the cytopathology; a heatlabile factor was required.

   Hypernym: pathology

   Holonym: cytohistopathology

   Coordinate terms: histopathology (tissues); cytology (often loosely synonymous)

参考

• exfoliative cytology