Pap smear
noun
North American term for cervical smear.Women who should be getting a Pap smear every two to three years may think they're no longer that important and delay being tested for five or seven years....
- Cervical dysplasia is abnormal cervical cells diagnosed by a Pap smear.
- Regular Pap smears are an important and effective way to determine who is at risk for cervical cancer.
Origin
1960s: from a shortening of the name of the anatomist George Nicholas Papanicolaou, who devised the technique, + smear (sense 2 of the noun).
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