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Definition: Histology |
HistologyNoun1. The branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "histology" was first used: 1847. (references) |
Etymology: Histology \His*tol"o*gy\, noun. [from Greek expression "isto`s tissue -logy.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The study of tissues and cells under a microscope. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Histology is the microscopic study of tissuess - their formation, structure and function.
Related biosciences:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Histology."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Texture | Histology. |
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Crosswords: Histology |
| English words defined with "histology": glycerin jelly ♦ Histiology, histologic, histological, histologically. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "histology": artist, scientific ♦ histologic technologist, histologic, histological, HISTOTECHNOLOGIST ♦ ILLUSTRATOR, MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ♦ laboratory assistant ♦ medical laboratory manage, medical technicia, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST, CHIEF, MEDICAL-LABORATORY TECHNICIAN ♦ pathologic histology ♦ tissue technologis. (references) |
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 | In 1969, pathologists Harold Stewart and Thelma Dunn were international authorities on the histology of mouse neoplasia.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Histology of normal anterior horn neurons of cervical spinal cord. Cresyl violet stain.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | CEA elevations correlate with stage and histology. (references) | |
Colloid, signet ring, or poorly differentiated histology. (references) | ||
A histology test allows the doctor to find and examine the actual bacteria. (references) | ||
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| "Histology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Histology" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 131 | 27,855 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "histology": pathologic histology. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "histology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 组织学 (histological). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | histologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | histologi, vaevslaere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | histologie, weefselleer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | علم بافت شناسی , بافت شناسی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | histologia, kudosoppi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | histologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | histologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιστολογία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szövettan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | istologia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 組"学 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そしきがく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 조직학 (histological). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | histoaylleeaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istologyhay histologia (historian), chiar (crank, creak, grate, gridiron, grumble, jar, peek, peep, screak, scroop, simmer, sizzle, squeak, whir). (various references) histologie. (various references) гистология (histiology, minute anatomy). (various references) histología. (various references) histologi. (various references) จุลกายวิ าคศาสตร์ของเนื้อเยื่อของสัตว์และพืช. (various references) histoloji, dokubilim. (various references) гістологія. (various references) khoa nghiên cứu mô (histiology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | histos. (various references) |
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"Histology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jesuology. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "histology" (pronounced hi'stÄ"lujē) |
| 6 | -t Ä" l u j ē | cosmetology, cytology, dermatology, gerontology, micropaleontology, ontology, otology, paleontology, rheumatology. |
| 5 | -Ä" l u j ē | anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, criminology, dendrochronology, doxology, ecology, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, graphology, gynecology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ophthalmology, ornithology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, seismology, serology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology. |
| 4 | -l u j ē | analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy. |
| 3 | -u j ē | prodigy, strategy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-l-o-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: sitology. | |
-2 letters: ghostly, ologist, ooliths, sightly, soothly, sootily. | |
-3 letters: ghosty, golosh, goyish, holist, hostly, igloos, isolog, lights, lithos, oolith, slight, thiols, tholoi, tholos, toyish. | |
-4 letters: ghost, gilts, glost, goosy, hilts, hoist, holts, hooly, hoots, hooty, hotly, igloo, light, litho, logoi, logos, loots, lotos, olios, ology, shily, shool, shoot, sight, silty, sloth, sooth, sooty, sotol. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-l-o-o-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: soothingly. | |
+2 letters: holystoning, hydrologist, mythologies, mythologist, phycologist. | |
+3 letters: hydrologists, mythologists, mythologizes, phycologists, physiologist, psychologist. | |
+4 letters: ichthyologies, ichthyologist, mythologizers, physiologists, psychologists. | |
+5 letters: anesthesiology, demythologizes, epiphytologies, geohydrologist, histologically, histopathology, hydrobiologist, ichthyologists, phytosociology, remythologizes, thyroglobulins. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 73 74 6F 6C 6F 67 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. ... - --- .-.. --- --. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i s t o l o g y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0073 0074 006F 006C 006F 0067 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427585868178817391 |
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