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the art of judging entire lives by a single cell's body language
means The branch of biology and medicine that studies cells — their structure, function, and the things that go wrong inside them.
from From Greek 'kytos,' meaning a hollow vessel or container (the same root that gives us cells imagined as little jars), joined to '-logia,' the study of something. The word was assembled in the 19th century, once microscopes had improved enough that scientists could finally peer into the hollow rooms life is built from.
- pap smear
- Papanicolaou's test caught cancer hiding in plain cells
- cell origin
- Hooke named them after monastery cells in 1665
- liquid biopsy
- Cells betray tumors through droplets of blood
- staining
- Dyes make invisible cells confess their secrets
- FNA
- A thin needle interrogates a lump without surgery
pap smear — cervical cancer screening developed by george papanicolaou in 1928, detects precancerous cells
blood smear analysis — diagnostic test examining individual cells in blood samples to detect leukemia, malaria, or anemia
fine needle aspiration — biopsy technique using thin needles to extract cells from thyroid, breast, or lung tumors for examination