cytopathology

== English == === Etymology === From cyto- + pathology. === Noun === cytopathology (countable and uncountable, plural cytopathologies) (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. Hypernym: pathology Holonym: cytohistopathology Coordinate terms: histopathology (tissues); cytology (often loosely synonymous) ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== exfoliative cytology