histologically
- adverb
- /ˌhɪstəˈlɑdʒɪkli/
- Specialized
- Hemangiomas are classified histologically according to the predominant type of vascular channel as capillary, cavernous, or mixed.
- Histologically, the tumor
- Histologically, the lesion
- histologically proven appendicitis
Examples
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All 47 coeliac patients were on a gluten-free diet, and diagnoses were firmly established histologically.
Academic text (1991) -
Testes from one specimen were examined histologically, and clasper length was measured on all males.
Academic text (1994) -
All tumors that occur after a normal pregnancy are histologically choriocarcinomas.
Academic text (1992) -
All 18 patients were later diagnosed to have histologically proved acute appendicitis (Table 2).
Academic text (2007) -
The Alvarado score was 6 in 113 patients, but 18 had histologically proved appendicitis.
Academic text (2007) -
No cancer was found in the parotidectomy specimen itself, and histologically, the original lesion was predominantly microcystic in structure.
Academic text (2005) -
118 patients had an Alvarado score of 7, and 104 were histologically diagnosed with appendicitis.
Academic text (2007) -
Histologically, seven tumors were of the microcystic type, two were papillary cystic, and two were solid.
Academic text (2005) -
Histologically, SNUC shows small to medium-sized cells with large ovoid nuclei and a high nucleus-to-cytoplasm ratio.
Academic text (2009) -
All tumors that occur after a normal pregnancy are histologically choriocarcinomas.
Synonyms
To need a microscope to be seen
To examine sick body tissue under a microscope
Surface Forms
Morphology
histologically = histological (transparent) = histology + ical + ly
The adverb is a regular -ly derivative of the adjective 'histological', denoting manner.
Etymology
Histologically comes from the root histo- meaning 'tissue' and the ending -logy meaning 'study', like in biology. So histologically means 'in a way that looks at tissue under a microscope'.