histologist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of histologist
First recorded in 1855–60; histolog(y) + -ist
Example Sentences
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A histologist sections off pieces a tenth the thickness of a human hair.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2019
He shared it with the Italian histologist Camillo Golgi, who had devised a new method of staining tissue that singled out individual cells under the microscope instead of presenting tangled illegible masses.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2018
Even Santiago Ramón y Cajal—the Barcelona-based histologist who essentially invented modern neuroscience at the end of the 19th century—declared such neural renewal impossible.
From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2014
Such is the conclusion of the truly admirable book which the histologist E.B.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
The Spanish nervous histologist had made a special study of the neuroglia or connective tissue cells in the central nervous system.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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