Agglutination reaction. Agglutination refers to a clumping that occurs when an antigen comes into contact with its corresponding antibody. This process mimics what happens in the body when antibodies cause antigens to agglutinate, promoting easy removal of the infectious organism.
Cytopathology is a branch of pathology involving the study and diagnosis of diseases at the cellular level using a light microscope. Traditionally the discipline has been divided into cervical cytopathology (commonly referred to as cervical cytology) and diagnostic cytopathology. Diagnostic cytology is mainly used for diagnosis of cancer in many parts of the body.
Cytology: The medical and scientific study of cells. Cytology refers to a branch of pathology, the medical specialty that deals with making diagnoses of diseases and conditions through the examination of tissue samples from the body.ytology also can involve examinations of preparations that are scraped or washed (irrigated with a sterile solution) from specific areas of the body. For example, a common example of diagnostic cytology is the evaluation of cervical smears (referred to as the Papanicolaou test or Pap smear).