-jē, -ji noun
( -es )
Etymology: French histologie, from hist- + -logie -logy
1. : a branch of anatomy that deals with the minute structure of animal and vegetable tissues as discernible with the microscope : microscopic anatomy — compare cytology
2. : a treatise on histology
3. : tissue structure or organization (as of an organism)
the histology of a fetus
the histology of the pancreas