microscopy
The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
Noun
- The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
- 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 5, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood...
- 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:
- 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...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der. English micro- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. English -scopy English microscopy From micro- + -scopy.
Forms
Derived
biomicroscopy colpomicroscopy copromicroscopy cryomicroscopy endomicroscopy fluoromicroscopy heliomicroscopy immunomicroscopy intravital microscopy nanomicroscopy otomicroscopy photomicroscopy spectromicroscopy submicroscopy supermicroscopy telemicroscopy ultramicroscopy videomicroscopy