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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 527 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HISTOLOGY (Gr. Ler6c, See also:
WEB (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Du. webbe, Dan. vaev, Ger. Gewebe, all from the Teutonic wabh—to weave)
web, See also:
TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)
tissue, properly the web-See also:
BEAM
BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)
beam of the See also:
LOOM
loom, from iQravai, to make to stand) , the See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science which deals with the structure of the tissues of See also:

PLANTS

plants and animals (see See also:

CYTOLOGY (from huros, a hollow vessel, and X6yos, science)

CYTOLOGY) .

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