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

• cytometrist
  noun
• cytometric
  adjective
• cytometrically
  adverb

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cytometry

To examine what was happening inside individual cells, Chai used live cell microscopy and flow cytometry, a technique that uses lasers to analyze and separate cells.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

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 ● May 31, 2024

Doing that involved a combination of flow cytometry -- a laser-based technique used to detect and analyse the chemical and physical characteristics of cells or particles -- and light microscopes.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024

On Earth, the technique that scientists use to sort cells by size is called flow cytometry, and it is used frequently in marine environments.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 16, 2021

Flow cytometry is an optical technique that classifies cells on the basis of properties such as size, granularity and the presence of signature proteins labelled with fluorescent antibodies.

From Nature ● May 21, 2018