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MICROSCOPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Magnifier of the image of small objects
Example:
the invention of the microscope led to the discovery of the cell
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("microscope" is a kind of...):
magnifier (a scientific instrument that magnifies an image)
Meronyms (parts of "microscope"):
camera lucida (an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "microscope"):
angioscope (a modified microscope used to study capillary vessels)
electron microscope (a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light)
light microscope (microscope consisting of an optical instrument that magnifies the image of an object)
Derivation:
microscopic; microscopical (of or relating to or used in microscopy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb microscope
Context examples:
Both the bone marrow and bone samples are sent to a laboratory to be looked at under a microscope.
(Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, NCI Dictionary)
These characteristics include how the cancer cells look under a microscope and whether there are certain substances in or on the cells or certain changes to the DNA of the cells.
(Cancer subtype, NCI Dictionary)
I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The cell type is usually identified by looking under a microscope.
(Cell type, NCI Dictionary)
Your health care provider can find abnormal cells by doing a Pap test - examining cells from the cervix under a microscope.
(Cervical Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
It may also have a tool to remove tissue to be checked under a microscope for signs of disease.
(Bronchoscopy, NCI Dictionary)
A mild salt solution is washed over the surface of the airways to collect cells, which are then looked at under a microscope.
(Bronchial washing, NCI Dictionary)
The sample is sent to a laboratory to be looked at under a microscope.
(Bone marrow biopsy, NCI Dictionary)
The cells are checked under a microscope.
(Breast Duct Lavage, NCI Dictionary)
These cells are then looked at under a microscope.
(Bronchial brush biopsy, NCI Dictionary)
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