Etymology

Kromskop

K5R1O1M3S1K5O1P3

Today it means: A device used for taking colour photographs of specimens in pathology. Full definition →

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Coined by American inventor Frederic Eugene Ives as a phonetic respelling of a compound formed from chrom- + -scope.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.