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- noun anatomy The
mucous membrane of the cervical canal
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Examples
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Specimens for GC/Chlam PCR testing can be obtained from the vagina as well as the cervical os, and this is useful if blood or excess cervical mucus are present at the endocervix, since these can interfere with the sensitivity of these tests.
Performing the Pelvic Exam aka TBTAM 2007
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Cyclin D1 immunoreactivity in normal endocervix and diagnostic value in reactive and neoplastic endocervical lesions
Naturejobs - All Jobs Leonie Little 2010
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MUC16 is expressed at the apical surface of coelomic epithelia and its derivatives including epithelial cells in the Müllerian duct, fallopian tube, endometrium, endocervix, and mesothelial cells lining the peritoneal and pleural cavities In spite of the utility of CA125 in the clinic, the biological functions of CA125 / MUC16 in normal physiology and ovarian cancer are still poorly understood.
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Norcross, GA, USA) used in the study is a nonsignificant risk device by FDA standards that noninvasively and automatically scans the ectocervix and distal endocervix for disease related changes in fluorescence and reflectance spectra.
Medgadget 2009
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