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Plate 8 Photomicrographs of human vaginal smears colored by hand as in stained smears

Photomicrographs of human vaginal smears colored by hand as in stained smears, in order to show the relative number of cornified cells (stained red).

32 Twelfth day. Typical copulative smear with leucopenia. Same as figure 13.

33 Ovulative type of smear. Fourteenth day. Oc. 3,0bj. 8, B. 19.

34 Fifteenth day. Post-ovulative smear with continued high cornification and Ieueopenia. Same as figure 17.

35 Twenty-third day. Typical premenstrual smear. Same specimen as in figure 18. 0c. 6, Obj. 16, B. 23.

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Reference

Papanicolaou GN. The sexual cycle in the human female as revealed by vaginal smears. (1933) Amer. J Anat. 52: 519–637.

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