Cytology is the exam of a single cell type, as often found in fluid specimens.
It's mainly used to diagnose or screen for cancer.
It's also used to screen for fetal abnormalities, for pap smears, to diagnose infectious organisms, and in other screening and diagnostic areas..
The suffix (-cyte) also means of or relating to a cell.
Adipocyte (adipo - cyte) - cells that compose adipose tissue.
Adipocytes are also called fatcells because they store fat or triglycerides.
Bacteriocyte(bacterio - cyte) - an adipocyte that contains symbiotic bacteria, often found in some types of insects.
Erythrocyte (erythro - cyte) - red blo.
This image shows two animal cells during cytokinesis (cell division).
Cytokinesis occurs after nuclear division (mitosis), which produces two daughter nuclei.
The two daughter cells are still connected by a midbody, a transient structure formed from microtubules.
The prefix (cyto-) means of or relating to a cell.
Cytology specimens can be obtained from various fluids (urine, CSF, or sputum or discharges) specifically as a means of detecting abnormal or malignant cells.
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The formal discipline in which cells are studied and the changes seen correlated with the clinical findings in Pts. 2.
Now that you've reviewed biology prefixes that begin with "cyto-" along with biology suffixes that end with "-cyte", you should be well prepared to 'dissect' additional similar words like cytotaxonomy, cytochemical, cytotoxicity and mesenchymocyte.
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