Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The anatomical study of the microscopic structure of animal and plant tissues.
- n. The microscopic structure of tissue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That branch of anatomy which is concerned with the structure, especially the microscopic structure, of the various tissues of the body; histomorphology. Vegetable histology is that branch of histology which is concerned with the microscopic structure of the tissues of plants. Sometimes written histiology.
Wiktionary
- n. biology The study of the microscopic structure, chemical composition and function of the tissue or tissue systems of plants and animals
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also
histiology .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues
Etymologies
- histo- + -logy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He lectured in histology and anatomy and eventually came to be a Professor of Anatomy but died in 1898 from kidney tumours.”
“The name histology (see definitions at beginning of this article) was introduced by K. Meyer in 1819, whilst”
“The co-primary long term histology endpoints were the proportion of patients with histologic improvement (defined as greater than or equal to a two-point decrease in Knodell necroinflammatory score and no worsening of Knodell fibrosis score) and the proportion of patients with improvement in Ishak fibrosis score (greater than or equal to a one-point decrease), both compared to baseline.”
“New long-term histology results were presented from a cohort of 57 nucleoside-naive patients from rollover study ETV-901.”
“The long-term histology cohort included 57 nucleoside-naive patients who received a minimum of 3 years of cumulative therapy with BARACLUDE from the start of studies ETV-022 or -027”
“In 1881 Golgi was appointed to the chair of General Pathology at the University of Pavia, and he also maintained his teaching in histology.”
“Currently obtaining data about the spatial distribution of biochemical components in tissue samples is largely accomplished using histology, which is destructive and time consuming, and thus the use of contrast agents in conjunction with CT imaging will result in readily available, nondestructive alternative to histology.”
“Supports the various workflow needs of core labs and their departments, such as histology and microbiology.”
“Put your instruments in an unsuspecting container, then label it "histology samples" or something unappealing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘histology’.
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
hysteresis, hyrax, hyoid, hymnody, hymnal, hylicism, hydric, hyalopterous, hyaloid, hyalography, hyaline, hyacinthine and 568 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Fall Words 2009
sgraffito, maestá, tempera, size, gesso, obsolescence, hinterland, taboret, pram, amygdalate, pandect, loggia and 105 more...
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histo-, hist-
of or relating to organic tissue
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smart pple werdz
petard, anxiogenic, paratactic, nonce, baldachin, eugenic, conflagration, innervate, counterfactual, corpuscular, reticulate, apodictic and 93 more...
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ologies
technology, zymology, zygology, zoophytology, zoophysiology, zoopathology, zoonosology, zoology, zoogeology, zooarchaeology, xylology, vulcanology and 850 more...
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Science_Words
motility, sessility, histology, buccal, Glucuronidation, chelating, endogenic, endemic, epidemic, exogenic, uxine
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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mine's an ology!
words ending in ology
biology, oncology, nephrology, histology, microbiology, pathology, zoology, neurology, gynaecology, etiology
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