microanatomy

[mahy-kroh-uh-nat-uh-mee]

noun

1. the branch of anatomy dealing with microscopic structures (gross anatomy ).

Other Word Forms

• microanatomic adjective
• microanatomical adjective
• microanatomically adverb
• microanatomist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of microanatomy¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; micro- + anatomy

Example Sentences

Traditionally, studying the microanatomy of tissue has required that investigators obtain a thin slice of tissue for examination.

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With luck, analysing the genetic patterns exposed by studies such as this will eventually point out where to look in the brain’s microanatomy to find whatever miswiring is causing psychiatric disease.

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Gerner, M. Y., Kastenmuller, W., Ifrim, I., Kabat, J. & Germain, R. N. Histo-cytometry: a method for highly multiplex quantitative tissue imaging analysis applied to dendritic cell subset microanatomy in lymph nodes.

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The clue got the team thinking that maybe reptiles need placodes to make scales and led them to search the microanatomy of reptilian embryos.

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It can help us address questions and data coming from neuroscience about things like receptor distribution, microanatomy.

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