microscopy

From micro- + -scopy.

• enPR: mī-krŏsʹkə-pē
• (UK) IPA^(key): /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /maɪˈkɹɑ.skə.pi/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /mɑɪˈkɹɔs.kə.pi/
• Hyphenation: mi‧cros‧co‧py

microscopy (countable and uncountable, plural microscopies)

1. The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
2. The use of microscopes.
   • 1966 February, 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:

     Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”

   • 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88:

     Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.

   • 2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News‎^[1]:

     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).