histologist

American  

[hi-stol-uh-jist] / hɪˈstɒl ə dʒɪst /

noun

1. a specialist in histology.

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Etymology

Origin of histologist

First recorded in 1855–60; histolog(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

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

One must be an histologist or a surgeon to find an appreciable interest in studying the structure of the nerve cell or the topography of the cerebral centres.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

So also did the veteran histologist Kolliker, and soon afterwards all the leaders everywhere.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith