cytometry

American  

[sahy-tahm-uh-tree] / saɪˈtɑm ə tri /

noun

1. Cell Biology. the measurement and analysis of cells, especially by using a flow cytometer (flow cytometry) to identify cell types and assess their size, number, and other properties.

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cytometry Scientific  

/ sī-tŏm′ĭ-trē /

1. The counting and measuring of cells, especially the counting and analysis of cell size, morphology, and other characteristics, traditionally performed using a standardized glass slide or small glass chamber of known volume.

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Other Word Forms

• cytometric adjective
• cytometrically adverb
• cytometrist noun

Example Sentences

Researchers can later isolate these tagged cells from living cell populations using techniques such as flow cytometry.

From Science Daily

Using cell sorting technology at the Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorting Shared Resource at Hollings, the researchers sorted T-cells according to the amount of Golgi they contained.

From Science Daily

The researchers used flow cytometry, a laser-based technique that analyzes cell characteristics, to tally the fern’s whopping 160 billion base pairs.

From Science Magazine

Achieving these findings required significant support from the Bio-Imaging Analysis Facility and the Research Flow Cytometry Core at Cincinnati Children's.

From Science Daily

With funding from the Cornell Center for Immunology, they also employed a newer technique called Imaging Mass Cytometry.

From Science Daily