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macroscopy

macroscopy noun: macroscopic examination (with the naked eye).

Noun

macroscopy (uncountable)

  1. macroscopic examination (with the naked eye)
    • Therefore, we and others have further optimized these protocols for ex-vivo scanning of human lung tissue to bridge the gap between radiology and histopathology, and thus between macroscopy and near-cellular resolution.2022 March 16, Luca Di Tommaso, Torsten Goldmann, “From Macroscopy to Ultrastructure: An Integrative Approach to Pulmonary Pathology”, in Frontiers
    • It is worth briefly recapitulating what we felt were the main reasons for this oversight because, given the continued paucity of discussions explicitly devoted to the role of macroscopy in paleopathology, it seems likely that they persist today. ¶ Compared with techniques for examining skeletal...2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 19

Origin of macroscopy

From macro- + -scopy.

Words formed from macroscopy

Questions about macroscopy

What does macroscopy mean?
Macroscopy means macroscopic examination (with the naked eye).
What part of speech is macroscopy?
Macroscopy is a noun.

Words near macroscopy in the dictionary

  1. macroscopical
  2. macroscopically
  3. macroscopicities
  4. macroscopicity
  5. macroscopics
  6. macroscopy
  7. macrosculpture
  8. macrosculptures
  9. macroseeding
  10. macroseepage
  11. macroseepages

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