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The vagina is opened with a special examining instrument called a speculum and the examiner scrapes the mucus on the opening of the cervix with a plastic or wooden tool. Then the mucus is transferred to a glass microscope slide.
The slide is sent to a lab where it is stained with some special stains and then analyzed under a microscope by a trained technologist.
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