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HISTOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("histology" is a kind of...):
microscopic anatomy (the study of microscopic structures of tissues and organs)
Domain member category:
staining ((histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study)
fixation; fixing ((histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body)
Derivation:
histologic; histological (of or relating to histology)
histologist (anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues)
Context examples:
Disease objects specify a disease name and ID; disease objects also provide access to: ontological relations to other diseases; clinical trial protocols treating the disease; and specific histologies associated with instances of the disease.
(Disease Object, NCI Thesaurus)
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