Cytologists help us to identify the different cells and tissues.
Histologists help us identify different disease found within the cells and tissues.
Lastly, pathologists help us confer all of our results and relay them to the doctor and the patient.
Cytology (also known as cytopathology) involves examining cells from bodily tissues or fluids to determine a diagnosis.
A certain kind of physician, called a pathologist, will look at the cells in the tissue sample under a microscope and look for characteristics or abnormalities in the cells.
While cytopathology relates to abnormalities found within—or expressed by—individual cells, histopathology extends the analysis so that pathologists can see abnormalities related to attachments between cells, and explore whether the cell appears normal given its location within the tissue.
In cytology, cells are studied under a microscope after preparing a smear of the cells and staining them with appropriate stains.
The examples of cytological study are:
