survey
verb (used with object)
to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
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The literature dealing with the numbers of the red corpuscles in health, is so large as to be quite unsurveyable.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers