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cervical smear
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cervical smear

In medicine, removal of a small sample of tissue from the cervix (neck of the womb) to screen for changes implying a likelihood of cancer. The procedure is also known as the Pap test after its originator, George Papanicolaou.

There are 50 million smears taken annually in the USA (1998).



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