cell biologyn.
/ˌsɛl bʌɪˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌsɛl baɪˈɑlədʒi/ The branch of biology concerned with the structure, function, reproduction, interactions, etc., of living cells and the organelles they contain; (also) the biology of something at the cellular level.
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micrography1658
micrology1848
biostatics1849
electrobiology1849
biotechnics1852
human biology1860
phylogeny1872
developmental biology1877
psychobiology1879
microbiology1880
biokinetics1883
bacteriology1884
geratology1884
thremmatology1888
cell biology1889
biophysics1892
biomechanics1899
pathobiology1900
biometry1901
biometrics1902
metabiology1906
bioenergetics1907
radiobiology1919
biomedicine1922
photobiology1923
virology1935
sociobiology1946
space biology1955
prebiology1963
chronobiology1969
glycobiology1988
1889 W. Mills Text-bk. Animal Physiol. 6 It seems probable that the numerous researches of recent years and others now in progress will open up a new world of cell biology which will greatly advance our knowledge.
1917 R. S. Lull Org. Evol. (1926) x. 143 He [sc. Weismann] brought together the accumulated observations of the numerous contemporary students of cell biology and utilized them for the development of his somewhat speculative theories.
1952 R. Goldschmidt Understanding Heredity ii. 31 We are ready to continue our study of cell division, concentrating on the important phases..and leaving aside those details which are of special interest to the professional student of cell biology.
1975 Times 12 July 3/1 Recent discoveries about the cooperation of the body's defence cells..have major implications for genetics and cell biology.
2004 Nature 21 Oct. 911/3 As a former poxvirologist, I was a little disappointed not to read more about the molecular and cell biology of the virus itself.
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