Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy, deals with the study of cells as they are constituted in the various tissue types. Single cells, isolated from the fabric of tissue, are generally difficult to classify. However, when cells are examined in...

Histology is the study of the microscopic structure of biological tissues. It is a subdiscipline of anatomy, and is also called microscopic anatomy. The typical cell types in the brain are NEURONS and glia. Neurons have a SOMA (cell body), dendrites...

The use of a chemical reaction to generate an insoluble coloured end-product which will demonstrate various tissue elements. Examples of histochemical techniques include NADPH DIAPHORASE to demonstrate the presence of NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;...

Histology (from the Greek ἱστός) is the study of tissue sectioned as a thin slice, using a microtome. It can be described as microscopic anatomy. The photographing of stained cells is called histography. Histology is an essential tool of biology....

In 1885, pathologist George Elliott was looking through his microscope at the histological preparation of a tumor pictured here. He noted that "the structure is largely composed of epithelial tissue which in places appears in the form of distinct lobules or "cell nests." In...

It is accepted that different histologic subtypes of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) exist, and that these subtypes differ in their biologic aggressiveness. In this issue of the Journal, Cohen and Nelson make a convincing argument that mixed histology...