HISTOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does histologist mean? 

• HISTOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun HISTOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues

  Familiarity information: HISTOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HISTOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("histologist" is a kind of...):

anatomist (an expert in anatomy)

Instance hyponyms:

Camillo Golgi; Golgi (Italian histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for his discovery of Golgi bodies (1844-1926))

Malpighi; Marcello Malpighi (Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694))

Ramon y Cajal; Santiago Ramon y Cajal (Spanish histologist noted for his work on the structure of the nervous system (1852-1934))

M. J. Schleiden; Matthias Schleiden; Schleiden (German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 formulated the cell theory (1804-1881))

Schwann; Theodor Schwann (German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882))

Derivation:

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