cytologicaladj.

1862 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 43 67 Influenced as readily as are any of the other cytological elements of the vital stimuli, wherever modifications in the latter cause perverted action in the one, they may also in the other.

1896 E. B. Wilson Cell ii. 70 A consideration of the forces at work in mitotic division..leads us into one of the most debatable fields of cytological inquiry.

1922 Bot. Gaz. 74 453 The Cyclosporales..may show a reduction from a morphological to a mere cytological alteration of generations.

1952 G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) ix. 406 Apart from their capacity to induce malignancy, these agents have one cytological action in common. They are all capable of bringing about aberrations of mitosis.

1975 J. H. Burnett Mycogenetics xii. 251 The first 25 years of scientific breeding of P. chrysogenum have demonstrated..the dangers inherent in it if mutagens are employed causing cytological aberrations.

2008 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 Apr. vi. 8/1 (advt.) The Cytotechnologist performs clerical and cytopreparatory processing and screening analysis of all cytological specimens.

1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 371 Cytologically at least, the ovum of a complex animal is as simple, even simpler than many of the single celled animals.

1956 Nature 25 Feb. 376/2 Males with average litter sizes of nine or more were not examined cytologically.

1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes iv. 44/1 Cytologically, no gastric epithelium or glands are present.