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The use of instrumentation and techniques for visualizing material and details that cannot be seen by the unaided eye. It is usually done by enlarging images, transmitted by light or electron beams, with optical or magnetic lenses that magnify the entire image field. With scanning microscopy, images are generated by collecting output from the specimen in a point-by-point fashion, on a magnified scale, as it is scanned by a narrow beam of light or electrons, a laser, a conductive probe, or a topographical probe.
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- Compound Microscopy
- Hand-Held Microscopy
- Light Microscopy
- Optical Microscopy
- Simple Microscopy
- Hand Held Microscopy
- Microscopy, Compound
- Microscopy, Hand-Held
- Microscopy, Light
- Microscopy, Optical
- Microscopy, Simple
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends, veterinary.
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do not index here routinely for histol & cytol studies: Manual 26.12+
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- National Library of Medicine. Microscopy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008853. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008853
- Microscopy. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscopy
- Microscopy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1074953