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histology

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /hɪsˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
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  • CMU ARPABET: HH IH0 S T AA1 L AH0 JH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Examples

  • Holonym: cytohistology

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: biology

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Histopathology.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Qualifier: often in medicine

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Examples

  • Holonyms: cytohistology, cytohistopathology

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: biology, biomedicine, medicine, pathology

3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: microscopic anatomy

History

Etymology

From histo- + -logy.

Across languages

Translations

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: հյուսվածքաբանություն (hyusvackʻabanutʻyun) — study of microscopic structure
  • Asturian: histoloxía — study of microscopic structure
  • Bashkir: гистология (gistologiya) — study of microscopic structure
  • Belarusian: гістало́гія (histalóhija) — study of microscopic structure
  • Bulgarian: хистология (histologija) — study of microscopic structure
  • Catalan: histologia — study of microscopic structure
  • Chinese Mandarin: 組織學 /组织学 (zǔzhīxué) — study of microscopic structure
  • Czech: histologie — study of microscopic structure
  • Danish: histologi — study of microscopic structure
  • Dutch: weefselleer — study of microscopic structure
  • Esperanto: histologio — study of microscopic structure
  • Estonian: histoloogia — study of microscopic structure
  • Estonian: koeõpetus — study of microscopic structure
  • Finnish: histologia — study of microscopic structure
  • French: histologie — study of microscopic structure
  • Galician: histoloxía — study of microscopic structure
  • German: Gewebelehre — study of microscopic structure
  • Hindi: ऊतक विज्ञान (ūtak vijñān) — study of microscopic structure
  • Hungarian: szövettan — study of microscopic structure
  • Hungarian: hisztológia — study of microscopic structure
  • Irish: histeolaíocht — study of microscopic structure
  • Italian: istologia — study of microscopic structure
  • Japanese: 組織学 (sosikigaku) — study of microscopic structure
  • Kazakh: гистология (gistologiä) — study of microscopic structure
  • Khmer: ជាលិកាវិទ្យា (jea li ka vi tyea) — study of microscopic structure
  • Kyrgyz: гистология (gistologiya) — study of microscopic structure
  • Malay: histologi — study of microscopic structure
  • Norwegian Bokmål: histologi — study of microscopic structure
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: histologi — study of microscopic structure
  • Polish: histologia — study of microscopic structure
  • Portuguese: histologia — study of microscopic structure
  • Romanian: histologie — study of microscopic structure
  • Russian: гистоло́гия (gistológija) — study of microscopic structure
  • Slovak: histológia — study of microscopic structure
  • Spanish: histología — study of microscopic structure
  • Swedish: histologi — study of microscopic structure
  • Tagalog: palasihayanan — study of microscopic structure
  • Ukrainian: гістоло́гія (histolóhija) — study of microscopic structure
  • Vietnamese: mô học — study of microscopic structure
  • Volapük: histunav — study of microscopic structure