Pap Test: How it is Done?

Here’s a step-by-step procedure to do the Pap test:

1. First is to take off your clothes below your waist and lie down on your back on a table with your feet raised, which is supported b stirrups.

2. Your doctor will insert a speculum, an instrument with curved blades, into your vagina. The speculum will spread the vaginal walls.

3. Your doctor will insert a cotton swab, with a tiny brush and a small wooden spatula, with a larger brush called a cervix brush, or with an extended tip spatula to scrape away several samples of cells from the cervix.

4. Your doctor will smear the collected cells on a slide, preserved, and ten sent to the laboratory for examination. 

Source : http://aboutmypregnancy.blogspot.com/2010/11/pap-test-how-it-is-done.html