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- noun Plural form of
histologist .
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Examples
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And histologists and embryologists, especially in Germany and the United States, used rapidly improving microscopic techniques to observe far more than had been possible before.
Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005
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In 1922, Krogh summarized his own work on capillaries and that of others in a monograph (now published in several editions) about which Eugene Landis says, "Very few books yielded as prompt and as widespread stimulation of research as this monograph did when it was read by histologists, physiologists, pathologists and clinicians."
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That development increased our information, but left a large and deep gap between the world of structures - the domain of the anatomists, histologists and pathologists - and the world of molecules - the province of the chemists and biochemists.
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It indicates the spot where the nerve ending comes into contact with the cell, and has been adopted by histologists only in this sense.
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It must, however, be added that within the past few years the validity of the neuron theory has been called in question by certain eminent histologists, who maintain that by the employment of more delicate histological methods, minute fibrils can be followed from one nerve cell into another.
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It is believed by some histologists that the matrix is permeated by a number of fine channels, which connect the lacunæ with each other, and that these canals communicate with the lymphatics of the perichondrium, and thus the structure is permeated by a current of nutrient fluid.
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Of the five skilled histologists who have examined the ear of the dancer, Rawitz alone found markedly abnormal canals.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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Nor are histologists agreed as to whether the red-blood corpuscles themselves are to be regarded as true cells, or merely as fragments of cells budded out from a true cell for a special purpose; but in either case there is not the slightest doubt that the chief function of the red corpuscle is to carry oxygen.
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When Dr. Cajal announced his discovery, in 1889, his revolutionary claims not unnaturally amazed the mass of histologists.
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And so histologists came to question whether, after all, the cell contents rather than the enclosing wall must not be the really essential structure, and the weight of increasing observations finally left no escape from the conclusion that such is really the case.
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