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The Cytology Zoo
You can come too, too, too!
An exhibition of smears featuring some familiar looking squamous epithelial cell critters.
Can you recognize them all?
Cytology is the study of individual cells that have been isolated from a specimen. The technique is used mainly to study or screen for cancer but can be useful in the diagnosis of other diseases too, like those involving infectious organisms.
Most of the cells seen in a cytological smear or specimen are obtained in one of three ways:
- Scraping/Brushing the surface of a tissue (this is how cells are obtained from the uterine cervix during a pap smear)
- Collecting a fluid, this could be urine, mucus, blood or semen
- Fine-needle aspirations, this is when cells are removed by sucking them through a fine diameter needle. Fluid from the abdominal, pleural or pericardial cavities are obtained in this way and also cerebrospinal fluid during a lumbar puncture (or spinal tap).
The cells seen here are all squamous epithelial cells that are obtained from the cervix by scraping/brushing.
Credits:
@oreoimc (1-4) & (7-9)
@isac.p (5)
@sza_jhycto (6)
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Bender-scope
The microscopes of the future are all surly and a little bit hungover.
Current mood: “Bite my shiny metal a$$“