Glossary


unclear or inconclusive Pap resultsearch for term

The testing lab cannot tell whether your Pap is normal or abnormal. (The medical term is ASC-US, shorthand for atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance.) Your cervical cells look like they could be abnormal. This is not an unusual result. And it doesn’t mean the lab did a bad job. It’s just impossible to know at that time.