cytopathology
noun
cytopathology is a noun meaning “The branch of pathology that deals with abnormalities of cells, independently of the tissue architecture from which they came, as for example in…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-T-O-P-A-T-H-O-L-O-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cytopathology is cytopathologies.
What does cytopathology mean?
noun
- 1
The branch of pathology that deals with abnormalities of cells, independently of the tissue architecture from which they came, as for example in aspiration biopsy such as fine-needle aspiration.
Holonym: cytohistopathology
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cytopathology
- cytopathologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cytopathology?
Cytopathology appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cytopathology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense branch of pathology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | citopatologia |
| Spanish | citopatología |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cytopathology come from?
From cyto- + pathology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).