1. a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope; [syn: smear, cytologic smear, cytosmear]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cytologic smear
n 1: a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and
stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a
microscope [syn: smear, cytologic smear, cytosmear]