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histowax

histowax noun: wax used to embed histological samples.

Noun

histowax (countable and uncountable, plural histowaxes)

  1. wax used to embed histological samples

Forms of histowax

pluralhistowaxes

Origin of histowax

From histo- + wax.

Questions about histowax

What does histowax mean?
Histowax means wax used to embed histological samples.
What part of speech is histowax?
Histowax is a noun.
What is the plural of histowax?
The plural of histowax is histowaxes.

Words near histowax in the dictionary

  1. histotype
  2. histotypes
  3. histotypic
  4. histotyping
  5. histovariability
  6. histowax
  7. histozoic
  8. histozyme
  9. histozymes
  10. histrelin
  11. histrion

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