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histiology

histiology is the alternative form of histology.

Meaning of histology

Noun

histology (countable and uncountable, plural histologies)

  1. The study of the microscopic structure, chemical composition and function of the tissue or tissue systems of plants and animals.
    • Holonym: cytohistology
    1. (often in medicine) Histopathology.
      • Holonyms: cytohistology, cytohistopathology

Origin of histiology

From histio- + -logy = histi- + -ology.

Words formed from histiology

Questions about histiology

What is histiology the alternative form of?
Histiology is the alternative form of histology.

Words near histiology in the dictionary

  1. histiocytomata
  2. histiocytoses
  3. histiocytosis
  4. histioid
  5. histiological
  6. histiology
  7. histioneutrophilic
  8. histiophagous
  9. histiopterid
  10. histiopterids
  11. histiosarcoma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: histiology (page history and authors); histology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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