histology

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Alternative forms

• histiology (dated)

Etymology

From histo- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪsˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

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Noun

histology (countable and uncountable, plural histologies)

1. (biology) The study of the microscopic structure, chemical composition and function of the tissue or tissue systems of plants and animals.

   Hypernym: biology

   Holonym: cytohistology

   Coordinate term: cytology (cells without tissue context)

   1. (often in medicine) Histopathology.

      Hypernyms: biology, biomedicine, medicine, pathology

      Holonyms: cytohistology, cytohistopathology

      Coordinate term: cytology (cells without tissue context)

Derived terms

• anatomical histology
• cytohistology
• hepatohistology
• histologic
• histological
• histologist
• immunohistology
• microhistology
• morphohistology
• neurohistology
• normal histology
• osteohistology
• palaeohistology
• paleohistology
• pathohistology
• pathological histology
• physiological histology
• stereohistology

 

Translations

study of microscopic structure

• Armenian: հյուսվածքաբանություն (hy) (hyusvackʻabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: histoloxía f
• Bashkir: гистология (gistologiya)
• Belarusian: гістало́гія f (histalóhija)
• Bulgarian: хистология f (histologija)
• Catalan: histologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 組織學／组织学 (zh) (zǔzhīxué)

• Czech: histologie (cs) f
• Danish: histologi (da) c
• Dutch: weefselleer (nl) f
• Esperanto: histologio
• Estonian: histoloogia (et), koeõpetus
• Finnish: histologia (fi)
• French: histologie (fr) f
• Galician: histoloxía (gl) f
• German: Gewebelehre f
• Hindi: ऊतक विज्ञान m (ūtak vijñān)
• Hungarian: szövettan (hu), hisztológia (hu)
• Irish: histeolaíocht f
• Italian: istologia (it) f
• Japanese: 組織学 (ja) (sosikigaku)
• Kazakh: гистология (gistologiä)
• Khmer: ជាលិកាវិទ្យា (jea li ka vi tyea)
• Kyrgyz: гистология (gistologiya)
• Malay: histologi (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: histologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: histologi m

• Polish: histologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: histologia (pt) f
• Romanian: histologie (ro) f
• Russian: гистоло́гия (ru) f (gistológija)
• Slovak: histológia (sk) f
• Spanish: histología (es) f
• Swedish: histologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: palasihayanan
• Ukrainian: гістоло́гія f (histolóhija)
• Vietnamese: mô học
• Volapük: histunav