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Histological

Definition: Histological

Histological

Adjective

1. Of or relating to histology.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "histological" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Synonym: Histological

Synonym: histologic (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Histological

English words defined with "histological": histologically. (references)
Specialty definitions using "histological": ArtifactsCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, CryopreservationGastric Antral Vascular EctasiaHepatitis, Chronic, Drug-Induced, histologic, histologicalLeukocyte Adherence Inhibition Test, Lewy BodiesMice, Inbred mdxNeoplasms by Histologic Type, Neoplasms, Ductal, Lobular, and Medullary, Neoplasms, Second Primary, Nevus of OtaOsmium TetroxidePlastic Embedding. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Histological

DomainTitle

Books

  • Histological and Cytological Typing of Neoplastic Diseases of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues (reference)

  • Histological and Histochemical Methods: Theory and Practice (reference)

  • Histological Diagnosis of Tumours by Pattern Analysis: An A-Z Guide (reference)

  • Histological Typing of Prostate Tumours (International Histological Classification of Tumours (Unnumbered).) (reference)

  • Imaging of the Brain with Histological Correlations (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Histological

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Sections of tissue embedded in paraffin wax are sliced and floated on a hot-water bath in preparation for histological study.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Histological section showing cervical cancer specifically squamous cell carcinoma in the cervix. Tissue is stained with pap stain and magnified x200.Credit: Unknown photographer.

Breast cancer invades normal tissues and establishes new centers of growth. Note that the duct on inside of breast is completely filled with tumor cells. This histological slide, stained with H&E stain and magnified to 100x.Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox (photographer).

A histological slide of hairy cell leukemia.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This histological slide, stained with H&E, is of the Epstein-Barr virus also known as EBV.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Seen is a profile of a woman pathologist viewing a histological slide while sitting at a microscope. This dramatic shot has a blue background, with the microscope and the pathologist's features highlighted with magenta. Light is seen passing through the microscope's condensor to the objectives. See artwork: NCI-22.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Histological

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Determine the significance of histological regression in melanoma. (references)

The diagnosis and microstaging of the suspicious lesion should be performed on fixed histological specimens. (references)

The resolution of these issues requires that surrogate markers, validated by histological confirmation, be developed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Histological

"Histological" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Histological" is used about 398 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%39814,032

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Histological

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "histological": non-histological.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Histological

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  histological stain

3

  histological improvement

3

  classification cns histological tumor who

3

  histological

3

  benign between difference histological malignant tumor

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Histological

Language Translations for "histological"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

组织学 (histology). (various references)

   

Danish

  

histologisk (microscopic study of body-related). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

histologisch. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

histologiaan perustuva ennuste (histological prognosis). (various references)

   

French

  

histologique. (various references)

   

German

  

histologisch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ιστολογικόσ, ιστολογικός. (various references)

   

Italian

  

istologico. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

조직학 (histology). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

istologicalhay

   

Portuguese

  

histológico, histológico. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

histológico. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Histological

Derivations

Words beginning with "histological": histologically. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Histological

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-l-l-o-o-s-t"

-2 letters: histologic, lithologic, logistical.

-3 letters: collagist, latosolic, oilcloths, sailcloth.

-4 letters: alcohols, chiliast, galliots, galloots, holistic, illogics, lithosol, localist, logistic, oilcloth.

-5 letters: alcohol, alights, cahoots, challis, challot, chitals, chollas, citolas, cogitos, colitis, coltish, coolish, coolths, galiots, galliot, galloot, galoots, gasohol, goatish, gothics, halloos, hilloas, holloas, illogic, ischial, isotach, italics, latigos, latosol, litchis, lithias, lochial, logical, ologist.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-l-l-o-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: histologically.

 

+5 letters: histopathological, phytosociological.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Histological


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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