histologist

[ hi-stol-uh-jist ]

noun

1. a specialist in histology.

Word History and Origins

Origin of histologist¹

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

In one study, world-renowned histologist Christopher Dean teamed up with his former student Wendy Birch to analyze the baby teeth of a colleague’s twins.

From Salon

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

“I really love being part of the process,” said Bliss, 33, a histologist at Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center, which conducts biomedical and behavioral studies.

From Washington Post

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