Terminologia Histologica after more than 10 years: disputable terms which need a wide scientific discussion and recent developments

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11130/19:10395553

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2019.07.005" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2019.07.005</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2019.07.005" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.aanat.2019.07.005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Terminologia Histologica after more than 10 years: disputable terms which need a wide scientific discussion and recent developments

Original language description

At first sight, the issue of morphological terminology may seem as &quot;closed and changeless chapter&quot;, as many of the structures within the human body have been known for decades or even centuries. However, the exact opposite is true. The initial knowledge of the microscopic structure of the human body has been continuously broadening thanks to the development of new specialized staining techniques, discovery of the electron microscope, or later application of histochemical and immunohistochemical methods into routine tissue examination. Contrary to popular belief, histology has a status of constantly developing scientific discipline, with continuous influx of new knowledge, resulting in an unavoidable necessity to revise the histological nomenclature at regular intervals. The team of experts of the Federative International Programme on Anatomical Terminology, a working group of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists, published in 2008 the First Edition of Terminologia Histologica. Terminologia Histologica (TH) is the best and most extensive of all the histological nomenclatures ever issued, however several terms of important histological structures are missing and on the other side, other disputable terms are present. In this article we have summarized some clinically important, but forgotten cells and tissue structure in TH (e.g., telocytes, myoid cells, laryngeal space of Reinke, lymphatic lacunae of tubal mucosa, or epicardial adipose tissue). The second part of this article is focused on those new terms listed in the current edition of the TH, which are not mentioned in current textbooks of histology (e.g., fusocellular connective tissue, bundle bone as the third type of bone tissue, spongy layer of vagina or arteria vaginata from the splenic white pulp). Without proper definition and examples of their occurrence, they will be used neither in histological practice nor in human histology teaching. We hope that a wide scientific discussion will develop before the publication of the second edition, so perhaps the mentioned minor flaws will be corrected, and the new edition of the Terminologia Histologica will truly become an internationally accepted communication tool for all histologists.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30106 - Anatomy and morphology (plant science to be 1.6)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Annals of Anatomy

ISSN

0940-9602

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

226

Issue of the periodical within the volume

November

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

16-22

UT code for WoS article

000497963100004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85069747360