hist/o

Medical Root
hist/o

hist/o means tissue (from the Greek).

What does hist/o mean?

The root hist/o means "tissue". It is used to build many medical terms, and comes from the Greek.

Example words using hist/o

WordMeaning
histologystudy of tissues
histopathologytissue disease study

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