ultramicroscope
noun
ul·tra·mi·cro·scope
ˌəl-trə-ˈmī-krə-ˌskōp 
: an apparatus for making visible by scattered light particles too small to be perceived by an ordinary microscope
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With ultramicroscopes, the tissue is illuminated with a laser beam that penetrates tissue and lights up certain molecules that lie exactly in that plane.
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David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2018
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ultramicroscope
noun
ul·tra·mi·cro·scope
ˌəl-trə-ˈmī-krə-ˌskōp
: an apparatus for making visible by scattered light particles too small to be perceived by the ordinary microscope
called also dark-field microscope
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