histophysicsn.
/ˌhɪstə(ʊ)ˈfɪzɪks/, U.S. /ˌhɪstoʊˈfɪzɪks/ Now rare.
The application of physics to the study of tissues; the physical properties of a tissue. Also: the branch of science that deals with this.
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1886 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 6 365 On the histophysics of the red blood-corpuscles.
1922 Internat. Med. & Surg. Surv. 4 No. 1. i. 935 By way of inductive investigation, histophysics might answer a part of those questions which the conception of inflammation has attempted to answer with theories.
1963 E. Mayer Introd. Dynamic Morphol. iii. iii. 158 Metabolic tracers will be mentioned in several chapters of the present book, mainly in..Chapter 7, which deals with histophysics and histochemistry.
1991 Surv. Ophthalmol. 36 233/2 I was guided by my fatherly teacher, H. Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, who in the thirties had introduced in Holland histophysics and histochemistry on tissue level.
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