histoculture

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noun

tissue culture

OriginEnglish culture ← Middle French culture ← Latin cultūra →
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Meanings

nounhistoculture (countable and uncountable, plural histocultures)

plural histocultures

  1. countableuncountabletissue culture

    Placenta samples were used only for histoculture, as described in the present article.

    2015 July 15, “Cytomegalovirus Infection Triggers the Secretion of the PPARγ Agonists 15-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acid (15-HETE) and 13-Hydroxyoctadecadienoic Acid (13-HODE) in Human Cytotrophoblasts and Placental Cultures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
verbhistoculture (third-person singular simple present histocultures, present participle histoculturing, simple past and past participle histocultured)

present singular third person histocultures · participle present histoculturing · participle past histocultured · past histocultured

  1. To propagate tissue using tissue culture.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  2. Ancient Greekῐ̔στός (hĭstós)
  3. Englishhisto-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
  6. Proto-Italic*kʷelō
  7. Latincolō
  8. Latincultūra
  9. Middle Frenchculture
  10. Englishculture
  11. Englishhistoculture

From histo- + culture.

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APA

histoculture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/histoculture

MLA

“histoculture.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/histoculture. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “histoculture,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/histoculture.

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