2) Herophilus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Erasistratus at Alexandria, he made public dissections, comparing human and animal morphology. He studied the structure of the brain (which he regarded as the...

3) anatomy. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...anatomy The structure of an animal or plant; also, the study of this structure through techniques such as microscopic observation and dissection. (Compare morphology...

4) Balfour, Francis Maitland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(2 vol., 1880-81) is a classic treatment of the evolution of the egg and embryo. Professor of animal morphology at Cambridge Univ., Balfour did research there and...

5) biology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...histology (the study of tissues), anatomy or morphology, physiology, and embryology (the study of the embryonic development of an individual animal or plant). Also...

6) zoology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...cytology and histology. Studies in embryology and morphology revealed much about the nature of growth and the biological relationships of animals. The system of binomial...

7) Leuckart, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...a founder of the science of parasitology. He made important discoveries in animal physiology and in comparative morphology and classification of invertebrates. His...

8) 357. Organization. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...petrifaction, paleontology or palæontology, paleozoölogy or palæozoölogy; paleontologist or palæontologist. [SCIENCE OF LIVING BEINGS] biology, natural history; 1zoölogy...

9) anatomy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...cells, called tissues. Related to anatomy is morphology, which involves comparative study of the corresponding organs in humans and animals. There are four major...

10) Whitman, Charles Otis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(1887) and edited the Journal of Morphology and was a founder and director (1888-1908) of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. He wrote on animal...