MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microscopic anatomy mean? 

• MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY (noun)
  The noun MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY has 1 sense:

1. the study of microscopic structures of tissues and organs

  Familiarity information: MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The study of microscopic structures of tissues and organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("microscopic anatomy" is a kind of...):

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "microscopic anatomy"):

cytology (the branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells)

histology (the branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues)