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histoid (medicine)


histoid


1. Resembling in structure one of the tissues of the body.

2. Sometimes used with reference to the histologic structure of a neoplasm derived from and consisting of a single, relatively simple type of neoplastic tissue that closely resembles the normal, as in certain fibromas and leiomyomas.

Synonym: histioid.

Origin: histo-+ G. Eidos, resemblance