MICROSCOPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microscopy mean? 

• MICROSCOPY (noun)
  The noun MICROSCOPY has 1 sense:

1. research with the use of microscopes

  Familiarity information: MICROSCOPY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROSCOPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Research with the use of microscopes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("microscopy" is a kind of...):

research (systematic investigation to establish facts)

Domain member category:

stain ((microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "microscopy"):

electron microscopy (microscopy with the use of electron microscopes)

dark field illumination; dark ground illumination (a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background)

fluorescence microscopy (light microscopy in which the specimen is irradiated at wavelengths that excite fluorochromes)

Derivation:

microscopic; microscopical (of or relating to or used in microscopy)

microscopist (a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes)

 Context examples 

A material that infiltrates and supports a specimen and preserves its shape and structure for sectioning and microscopy.

(Embedding Medium, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers can also manipulate the dimensions of the shapes, so they resemble flowers, trees or snowflakes, which are visualized using special microscopy techniques.

(New technique helps engineer water filters, human tissues, National Science Foundation)

Expansion microscopy enables researchers to resolve details down to about 70 nanometers, while 300 nanometers was the previous limit with a conventional microscope.

(Bigger is better for brain tissue understanding, NSF)

A microscopy staining method that utilizes Hansel reagent to differentiate eosinophils and neutrophils in a specimen.

(Hansel Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Those anatomic structures that are generally only visible through the use of microscopy.

(Microanatomic Structure, NCI Thesaurus)

The team used an imaging technique called cryo-electron microscopy.

(Structural states of a brain receptor revealed, NIH)

Electron microscopy of the mouse brains infected with bacteria also showed that the microbes were embedded in beta-amyloid fibers.

(Alzheimer’s protein may have natural antibiotic role, NIH)

They used a technique called cryo-electron microscopy.

(Zika virus structure revealed, NIH)

A simple non-quantitative form of interference microscopy of great utility in visualising live cells.

(Phase-Contrast Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

Any form of microscopy in which the interactions of electrons with the specimens are used to provide information about the final structure of that specimen.

(Electron Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)