noun
Freq #97519
Meanings
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noun
The use of microscopes to study very small objects.
The disease was diagnosed using microscopy of blood cells.
Thesaurus
Word family
Forms
microscopies
Derived forms
biomicroscopycolpomicroscopycopromicroscopycryomicroscopyendomicroscopyfluoromicroscopyheliomicroscopyimmunomicroscopynanomicroscopyotomicroscopyphotomicroscopyspectromicroscopy
Etymology
From micro- + -scopy.