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PHOTOMICROGRAPH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does photomicrograph mean?
• PHOTOMICROGRAPH (noun)
The noun PHOTOMICROGRAPH has 1 sense:
1. a photograph taken with the help of a microscope
Familiarity information: PHOTOMICROGRAPH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A photograph taken with the help of a microscope
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("photomicrograph" is a kind of...):
exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)
Context examples
The chromosome characteristics of an individual or a cell line are usually presented as a systematized array of metaphase chromosomes from a photomicrograph of a single cell nucleus arranged in pairs in descending order of size and according to the position of the centromere.
(Karyotyping, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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