Where does “fluoroimmunohistochemistry” come from?
fluoroimmunohistochemistry (English) comes from English immunohistochemistry, from English histochemistry, from English chemistry, from English chemist, from French chimiste, from French chimie, from Latin chimia, from Latin alchemia — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.
fluoroimmunohistochemistry (English): A laboratory technique in which fluorescently labeled antibodies are used to detect and localize specific antigens in tissue sections under a fluorescence microscope
Definitions
- A laboratory technique in which fluorescently labeled antibodies are used to detect and localize specific antigens in tissue sections under a fluorescence microscope
Ancestry of “fluoroimmunohistochemistry”, step by step
fluoroimmunohistochemistry traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English immunohistochemistry
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | immunohistochemistry | The analytical process of finding proteins in... |
| 2 | English | histochemistry | The branch of histology dealing with the... |
| 3 | English | chemistry | The branch of natural science that deals with the... |
| 4 | English | chemist | A person who specializes in the science of... |
| 5 | French | chimiste | chemist |
| 6 | French | chimie | chemistry |
| 7 | Latin | chimia | Alternative form of chēmia |
| 8 | Latin | alchemia | alchemy |
| 9 | Arabic | كيمياء | chemistry |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χυμείᾱ | art of alloying metals, alchemy |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χύμα | that which is poured out or flows, fluid; ingot,... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | -μᾰ | "suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -mn̥ | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs |
via English fluoro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fluoro | A fluorescent light; Of a fluorescent colour |
| 2 | English | -o | A colloquializing suffix; A type of person; Can... |
| 3 | English | O | A blood type that lacks A or B antigens and may... |
| 4 | Middle English | O | — |
| 5 | Old English | o | ever, always |
| 6 | Latin | o | The name of the letter "O"; o!; oh! |
| 7 | Etruscan | 𐌏 | — |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ο | Lower-case omicron (ὂ μικρόν), the 15th letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. It represented the close-mid back rounded vowel. It is preceded by ξ and followed by π |
| 9 | Phoenician | 𐤏 | ayin; ʿayin |
| 10 | Egyptian | 𓁹 | — |