cytology

English

Etymology

cyto- (“cell”) +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /saɪˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /saɪˈtɑləd͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: cy‧tol‧o‧gy

Noun

cytology (uncountable)

1. (biology) The study of cells.
2. Cytopathology.

Derived terms

• cytologic
• cytological
• cytologist
• immunocytology
• neurocytology
• paleocytology
• xenocytology

 

Translations

biology: the study of cells

• Albanian: citologji (sq) f
• Armenian: բջջաբանություն (hy) (bǰǰabanutʿyun)
• Balinese: ᬓᭀᬲᬶᬓᬯᬶᬤ᭄ᬬ (kosikawidya)
• Catalan: citologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 細胞學 (zh), 细胞学 (zh) (xìbāoxué)

• Czech: cytologie (cs) f
• Dutch: cytologie (nl) f, celleer de
• Esperanto: citologio
• Estonian: rakubioloogia, tsütoloogia, rakuõpetus
• Finnish: soluoppi (fi), solubiologia (fi), sytologia (fi)
• French: cytologie (fr) f
• German: Zytologie (de) f, Zellbiologie (de) f
• Greek: κυτταρολογία (el) f (kyttarología)
• Hindi: कोशिकाविज्ञान (kośikāvigyān)
• Hungarian: sejtbiológia (hu), sejttan (hu), citológia (hu)
• Icelandic: frumufræði f
• Ido: citologio (io)
• Italian: citologia (it) f

• Japanese: 細胞学 (さいぼうがく, saibōgaku)
• Khmer: កោសិកាវិទ្យា (kaose’kaa vityie)
• Korean: 세포학 (sepohak) (細胞學)
• Malay: kaji sel, sitologi
• Polish: cytologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: citologia (pt) f
• Romanian: citologie (ro) f
• Russian: цитоло́гия (ru) f (citológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цитологија f

  Roman: citologija (sh) f

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: cytologija f

• Spanish: citología f
• Swedish: cytologi (sv)
• Tagalog: palasihayan
• Telugu: జీవకణశాస్త్రము (te) (jīvakaṇaśāstramu)
• Turkish: sitoloji (tr), hücre bilimi (tr)
• Vietnamese: tế bào học (細胞學), sinh học tế bào