Word Finder - microscopic

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Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal

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We supply all microscopic stains and other materials.

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So small that it can only be seen using a microscope.

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The water was full of microscopic organisms.

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Very small; minute

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Compared to the galaxy, we are microscopic in scale.

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Carried out with great attention to detail.

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The police carried out a microscopic search of the crime scene.

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Able to see extremely minute objects.

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Why has not man a microscopic eye? — Alexander Pope.

In microscopic structure they all present the closest agreement with one another.

A microscopic voice inside warned her to stop, but desire put uncontrolled passion into her response.

Microscopic examination fully confirms the existence of these compounds.

This is a microscopic point of agreement, but is none the less significant.

In microscopic section the best slates show much colourless mica in small, thin, irregular scales.

The richness, profusion and microscopic accuracy of their decoration could scarcely have been surpassed; but, with very rare exceptions, their lack of delicacy of technique disqualifies them to rank as fine porcelains.

It crystallizes in microscopic rhombohedra insoluble in cold acids.

It is opaque, except in exceedingly thin slices, such as made for microscopic investigation, which are imperfectly transparent, and of a dark brown colour by transmitted light.

C. Zelinka has given us the most detailed anatomical accounts we possess for several Bdelloidaceae, and was the first to utilize modern methods of microscopic technique on a complete scale.

A Viet Nam village looks microscopic from 30,000 feet.

No adequate investigation of this subject has yet been made, but some observations made by the author of this article, on the piebald black and white rat, show that differences connected with the microscopic structure exist.

All the known forms of plant-life are either fungi or allied to them, and many are only microscopic. The most interesting inhabitants of Mammoth Cave are the blind, wingless grasshoppers, with extremely long antennae; blind, colourless crayfish (Cambarus pellucidus, Telk.); and the blind fish, Amblyopsis spelaeus, colourless and viviparous, from 1 in.

Spores are usually microscopic, and are produced in a variety of ways.

Heat inactivated serum did not produce any clinical signs, nor gross or microscopic lesions.

The only motion in the air was that of the dripping, microscopic particles of drizzling mist.

Microscopic accuracy has to be attained in cutting out the space for the insertion of the design, and while the latter must be soldered firmly in its place, not the slightest trace of solder or the least sign of junction must be discernible between the metal of the inserted picture and that of the field in which it is inserted.

It is a pax with a very rich and delicate niello picture of the coronation of the Virgin; the composition is very full, and the work almost microscopic in minuteness; it was made in 1452.

Ciliary movements, which undoubtedly contribute in bringing the surface into contact with larger supplies of oxygen and other fluids in unity of time, are not so rapid or so extensive when compared with other standards than the apparent dimensions of the microscopic field.

By means of microscopic examination more than one organism may sometimes be observed in the tissues,but one single organism by its constant presence and special relations to the tissue changes can usually be selected as the probable cause of the disease, and attempts towards its cultivation can then be made.

Such microscopic examination requires the use of the finest lenses and the application of various staining methods.

This disturbance results in disintegration to a varying degree, and may produce changes visible on microscopic examination.

Very thin laminae of haematite, blood-red by transmitted light, occur as microscopic enclosures in certain minerals, such as carnallite and sun-stone, to which they impart colour and lustre.

The Copepoda live upon the diatoms and other important microscopic vegetable life at the surface of the sea, and in their turn serve as food for fishes and other larger forms and thus, indirectly, for man himself.

Such a model, properly constructed, that is to say, with the vesicles of the foam microscopic in size, is a marvellous imitation of the appearance of protoplasm, being distinguishable from it only by a greater symmetry.

When heated in a vacuum to 530 it sublimes, and on condensation forms microscopic needles.

The theory describes the elementary particles as microscopic stringlike objects with a size of around 10-35m.

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Molds are composed of numerous, microscopic, branching hyphae known collectively as a mycelium.

Laboratory tests have developed the use of microscopic algae to remove heavy metals from water and soil leachate.

Liposome drugs are standard chemotherapy drugs used to treat KS that are put inside microscopic bubbles of fat called liposome drugs are standard chemotherapy drugs used to treat KS that are put inside microscopic bubbles of fat called liposomes.

His work shows an almost microscopic evaluation of surface.

However, the vast majority of environmental data is very small - even microscopic.

The true leaves are only microscopic scales of a brown, papery texture.

Quadrant III Quadrant III gives a macroscopic, not microscopic view, in other words a ' bird's-eye-view ' .

Tapeworm eggs are passed out in the dung and eaten by a microscopic mite which lives on the pasture.

Martin Turner takes you on a journey from the motion of a microscopic particle to the creation of imaginary moonscapes.

These images complement light microscopic images by revealing structural detail not observable by light microscopy.

Initially microscopic organisms feed on the more succulent ingredients in the pile.

Microscopic examination of the mimic and model cuticle may also reveal some interesting parallels.

These microscopic particles now have an electric charge which enables them to stick to surfaces more easily.

Note that many of the fine lines in the low magnification photomicrographs are actually trails of microscopic bubbles!

Using the latest photographic technology, these images capture in close up microscopic plankton living deep beneath the sea.

We try to understand the relation between the microscopic rheological behavior and the bulk rheology.

The image right shows a rotifer, a microscopic organism that can be found in a bird-bath or roof gutter.

Written by DM Benson, Plant Pathologist, this fact sheet provides information on the pest nematodes, which are microscopic roundworms.

A simple sponge is a bag of cells surrounding a cavity, supported by microscopic spicules.

The rocks are typically ' cleaner ' quartz sands and rather unfossiliferous apart from beds of microscopic sponge spicules.

The microscopic findings of the resected mass showed a stromal cell component by immunohistochemical stain.

Thousands of microscopic robots armed with tiny tweezers could pluck the Moon bare in a matter of weeks.

Gonococcal urethritis is diagnosed in 98 per cent of men by microscopic examination of the discharge obtained from a urethral swab.