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# Cervix

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The cervix is the neck of the uterus. This is the place where the uterus joins with the top end of the vagina. It is normally blocked by a muscosal plug which helps to prevent infection?, and which has to evacuated before the birth process can begin.

In humans it is associated with a particular form of cancer which is detectable by cytological study of epidermal cells remove from the cervix in a process known as the [smear test]?.

The PAP-smear as we know it is an invention of Dr. G.N. Papanicolaou?, 1883-1962, an American of Greek birth, the father of cytopathology?. He first published a large series of cases in "Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear" (Papanicolaou & Traut, 1943) The sampling technique has hardly changed ever since.

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