microscopy

Definition

The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.

Etymology

From micro- + -scopy.

Example Sentences

• "Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”"
• "Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy."
• "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)."