dark ground illumination

1. 1.

   a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background

   Synonymsdark field illumination

   Broadermicroscopy

Questions about dark ground illumination

What does dark ground illumination mean?

dark ground illumination means "a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background".

What is another word for dark ground illumination?

Close synonyms include dark field illumination. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dark ground illumination a common word?

dark ground illumination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.