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MICROSCOPE

Pronunciation (US):

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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

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 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)