CYTOGENETICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cytogenetics mean? 

• CYTOGENETICS (noun)
  The noun CYTOGENETICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of biology that studies the cellular aspects of heredity (especially the chromosomes)

  Familiarity information: CYTOGENETICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYTOGENETICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of biology that studies the cellular aspects of heredity (especially the chromosomes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cytogenetics" is a kind of...):

cytology (the branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells)

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Derivation:

cytogenetical (of or relating to cytogenetics)

 Context examples 

Cytogenetics Shared Resource provides Cancer Center members with support in following areas: routine cytogenetic (such as giemsa (G)-banding on fibroblast, lymphoblast or somatic cell hybrid lines to determine karyotypes, etc.), fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for clarification of karyotypes, and SKY (spectral karyotyping), to analyze chromosomal changes, microsatellite analysis of tumors for loss of heterozygosity, mutation analysis of tumors, chimerism studies of bone marrow transplants; maintenance of cell lines and lymphocytes.

(Cytogenetics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)