vaginal smear

Daily vaginal smears were collected for about ten days prior to sacrifice.

Vaginal smears are useful in timed matings to determine the stage of the estrous cycle.

Vaginal smears were taken daily, and rats exhibiting two or more consecutive 4-day estrous cycles were used.

Doc Kade took a vaginal smear.

Isles was just about to cut a matching incision from the left shoulder when Dean said, "What about the vaginal smear?"

Aurel Babeş is the inventor of the vaginal smear as screening test for cervical cancer.

The second one contained cotton wool, small bottles for samples, scissors, a syringe, tubes for taking penile and vaginal smears.

She also had deep lacerations to the scalp, a minor abrasion to the upper lid of her right eye and her vaginal smear was positive for spermatozoa.

An alternative is to use a Gram stained vaginal smear, with the Hay/Ison criteria or the Nugent criteria.

Methods Subjects Subjects were 50 female Fisher/344 rats weighing 235-245 g. The females were housed with male rats until pregnancy was confirmed by vaginal smear.

The three most commonly used medical methods for determining estrus are: serum progesterone and Luteinizing hormone(LH) as well as a vaginal smear.

(i) Excise ovaries between 12.00 h and 18.00 h on the day of dioestrum, that is the mid-point of the oestrous cycle, as verified by vaginal smearing.

I signed all sorts of papers, showed my American Express card, and we left - back to Jim's office, where he took a sample of my blood and a vaginal smear.

Papanicolaou's next communication on the subject did not appear until 1941 when, with gynecologist Herbert Traut, he published a paper on the diagnostic value of vaginal smears in carcinoma of the uterus.

Nevertheless, Mr. Robbe-Grillet remains the detached observer who began writing his first novel in 1948 while working at a biology laboratory, "taking vaginal smears every eight hours from hundreds of sterile rats injected with urine from mares in foal."

A vaginal wet mount (or vaginal smear or wet prep) is a gynecologic test wherein a sample of vaginal discharge is observed by wet mount microscopy by placing the specimen on a glass slide and mixing with a salt solution.

A report by B. Sreejan, senior reporter with the Thiruvananthapuram bureau of The New Indian Express (12 April 2007), stated that the original chemical examination report of the vaginal swab and vaginal smear of Abhaya has been found to have been tampered with.

He first reported that uterine cancer could be diagnosed by means of a vaginal smear in 1928, but the importance of his work was not recognized until the publication, together with Herbert Traut, of Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the Vaginal Smear in 1943.