microscopy
nounUK /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/ · US /maɪˈkɹɑ.skə.pi/
Etymology From micro- + -scopy.
1
The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
2
The use of microscopes.
- Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”1966 February 23, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood in Lymphoreticular Neoplastic Disease and “Flagellated” Cells of Normal Lymph Nodes”, in Blood, volume 27, number 2, page 199:
- Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88:
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- A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News:
- Derived terms
- biomicroscopy, colpomicroscopy, copromicroscopy, cryomicroscopy, endomicroscopy, fluoromicroscopy, heliomicroscopy, immunomicroscopy, intravital microscopy, nanomicroscopy, otomicroscopy, photomicroscopy, spectromicroscopy, submicroscopy, supermicroscopy, telemicroscopy, ultramicroscopy, videomicroscopy