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HISTOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("histologist" is a kind of...):
anatomist (an expert in anatomy)
Instance hyponyms:
Camillo Golgi; Golgi (Italian histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for his discovery of Golgi bodies (1844-1926))
Malpighi; Marcello Malpighi (Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694))
Ramon y Cajal; Santiago Ramon y Cajal (Spanish histologist noted for his work on the structure of the nervous system (1852-1934))
M. J. Schleiden; Matthias Schleiden; Schleiden (German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 formulated the cell theory (1804-1881))
Schwann; Theodor Schwann (German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882))
Derivation:
histology (the branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues)
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