microscopy

What it means

1. countableuncountableThe study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
2. countableuncountableThe use of microscopes.

   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

   2 more examples

   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 28, 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

   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

In a sentence

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 28, 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

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
2. Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
3. Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
4. Englishmicro-
5. Proto-Indo-European*speḱ-
6. Proto-Indo-European*spéḱyeti
7. Proto-Hellenic*sképt͏̌omai
8. Ancient Greekσκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
9. Ancient Greekσκοπός (skopós)
10. Ancient Greekσκοπέω (skopéō)
11. Englishmicroscopy

From micro- + -scopy.