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Define tissue and histology who coined the term tissue?


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Tissue:-

  1. A group of cells that are common in origin and structure and perform a similar function is called a tissue.
  2. The study of tissues is called histology.
  3. The term histology was coined by Meyer. Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and physiologist, who is best remembered as the father of modern histology.

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