
thumb|350px|ThinPrep pap smear with group of normal cervical cells on left and [[HPV-infected cells showing features typical of koilocytes: enlarged (x2 or x3) nuclei and hyperchromasia.]]
thumb|350px|ThinPrep pap smear with group of normal cervical cells on left and [[HPV-infected cells showing features typical of koilocytes: enlarged (x2 or x3) nuclei and hyperchromasia.]]
A koilocyte is a squamous epithelial cell that has undergone a number of structural changes, which occur as a result of infection of the cell by human papillomavirus (HPV). Identification of these cells by pathologists can be useful in diagnosing various HPV-associated lesions.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).