| Papanicolaou, George | <person> Greek-U.S. Physician, anatomist, and cytologist, 1883-1962. See: Pap smear, Pap test, Papanicolaou examination, Papanicolaou smear, Papanicolaou smear test, Papanicolaou stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Papanicolaou examination | Microscopic examination of cells collected from the cervix. It is used to detect changes that may be cancer or may lead to cancer, and it can show noncancerous conditions, such as infection or inflammation. Also called pap smear. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Papanicolaou smear | (Papanicolao) a special stain performed usually on a smear taken from the neck of the womb - the cervix. (16 Dec 1997) |
| Papanicolaou smear test | Microscopic examination of cells collected from the cervix. It is used to detect changes that may be cancer or may lead to cancer, and it can show noncancerous conditions, such as infection or inflammation. Also called pap smear. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Papanicolaou's stain | <technique> A complex stain for detecting malignant cells in cervical smears. Contains in separate staining stages (a) haematoxylin, (b) Orange G phosphotungstic acid c) Light green, Bismarck Brown, Eosin and phosphotungstic acid. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Papanicolaou stain | <technique> A multichromatic stain used principally on exfoliated cytologic specimens and based on aqueous haematoxylin with multiple counterstaining dyes in 95% ethyl alcohol, giving great transparency and delicacy of detail; important in cancer screening, especially of gynecologic smears. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bachman, George | <person> U.S. Parasitologist, *1890. See: Bachman-Pettit test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bachmann, Jean George | <person> U.S. Physiologist, 1877-1959. See: Bachmann's bundle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baehr, George | <person> U.S. Physician, 1887-1978. See: Baehr-Lohlein lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Beadle, George | <person> An American geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in 1958 with Edward Tatum for showing that genes are responsible for controlling the production of enzymes. Lived: 1903-1991. (13 Nov 1997) |
| Blumer, George | <person> U.S. Physician, 1858-1940. See: Blumer's shelf. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brewer, George | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1861-1939. See: Brewer's infarcts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Budd, George | <person> English physician, 1808-1882. See: Budd's cirrhosis, Budd's syndrome, Budd-Chiari syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Caldwell, George | <person> U.S. Physician, 1834-1918. See: Caldwell-Luc operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Palade, George | <person> Roumanian-U.S. Cell biologist and Nobel laureate, *1912. See: Palade granule, Weibel-Palade bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rainey, George | <person> English anatomist, 1801-1884. See: Rainey's corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |