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Smear (politics)
Smear may refer to: *A smear test, wherein a sample is smeared over a microscope slide to be studied for any pathology **A smear test usually refers to a pap test, that is, a cervical smear *Smear (card game) *Smear Lake, a lake in Wisconsin *Smear campaign, or smear job, an attack on the reputation of an individual or group making use of disinformation tactics *Smear Campaign (album), ''Smear Campaign'' (album), an album by Napalm Death *Pat Smear, the guitarist and actor *Smear (optics), motion that degrades sharpness, which is generally linear over the integration time *Colloquial name for a glissando, a glide from one musical pitch to another *Smear (graffiti artist), a Romanian born street artist was influential in the Los Angeles graffiti scene in the 1990s. Smearing may refer to: * Smearing of an image taken by an astronomical interferometer: ** Bandwidth smearing, a chromatic aberration; ** Time smearing, a consequence of Earth rotation during the observation; * Smearing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Smear Test
Cytopathology (from Greek , ''kytos'', "a hollow"; , ''pathos'', "fate, harm"; and , ''-logia'') is a branch of pathology that studies and diagnoses diseases on the cellular level. The discipline was founded by George Nicolas Papanicolaou in 1928. Cytopathology is generally used on samples of free cells or tissue fragments, in contrast to histopathology, which studies whole tissues. Cytopathology is frequently, less precisely, called "cytology", which means "the study of cells". Cytopathology is commonly used to investigate diseases involving a wide range of body sites, often to aid in the diagnosis of cancer but also in the diagnosis of some infectious diseases and other inflammatory conditions. For example, a common application of cytopathology is the Pap smear, a screening tool used to detect precancerous cervical lesions that may lead to cervical cancer. Cytopathologic tests are sometimes called smear tests because the samples may be smeared across a glass microscope slide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
