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noun

histology

the branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues

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Six example sentences with histology, each labelled with its topic.

  • The surgeon waited for histology before choosing the second procedure, since the frozen section had been read as inconclusive.

    Medicine

  • A first year histology course teaches students to stain a slide, then spend an hour naming what the dye revealed.

    Science

  • Nineteenth century histology advanced only after German glassmakers produced lenses that resolved detail the older instruments simply blurred.

    History

  • New software scans a histology slide overnight and marks the regions a pathologist should examine first the next morning.

    Technology

  • Biologists turned to histology on trout gills from the polluted reach, finding tissue damage that water samples alone had missed.

    Environment

  • The startup sells a benchtop scanner that digitizes histology slides, so a rural clinic can send images instead of glass.

    Startups

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