âThe Blob, a 1950âs horror movie, is about a group of cells that keeps eating until it grows to epic proportions. Now apply that image to cancerous or infectious disease cells inside the body. These cells eat everything until they grow too big to control. Luckily, there are lines of defense against this, and the work that you--a Cytotechnologist--does is one of them. Doctors take patients' samples and have you analyze them.
Exaggeration is a term for a figure of speech. It means the describing of something and making it more than it really is. The verb is to exaggerate. An example of exaggeration would be: âI was walking along when suddenly this enormous dog walked along. It was as big as an elephantâ.
Extrapolation is estimating the value of a variable outside a known range of values by assuming that the estimated value follows some pattern from the known ones. The simplest and most popular form of extrapolation is estimating a linear trend based on the known data. Alternatives to linear extrapolation include polynomial and conical extrapolation. Like estimation, extrapolation can be used for forecasting but it isn't limited to forecasting. Prediction is simply saying something about the future. Predictions are usually focussed on outcomes and not the pathway to those outcomes.