(n.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cortical cell length and diameter were measured using a microscope and eyepiece micrometer; measurements were conducted "blind."
(2) The sperm count can be made rapidly and directly from an undiluted, preheated sample by counting spermatozoa in the area of a grid located within the eyepiece; the count is expressed in millions per milliliter.
(3) Field tests involving 60 eyepieces demonstrated effective disinfection by a Chi-Square statistical comparison, at values greater than 95% confidence level, as compared to unirradiated eyepieces.
(4) It is very important that a patient himself can observe velopharyngeal movements through the eyepiece of the fiberscope in order to do self exercise.
(5) Higher correlation coefficients within and between observers were obtained using the cine method compared to the 70 mm visual and eyepiece techniques.
(6) Thus, it is now possible, as one scans the microscopic field, to look past the static images of red- and blue-stained cells and appreciate a dynamic and detailed medley of molecularly defined events emanating from the eyepiece.
(7) Airway luminal diameter was directly measured at diminishing transbronchial pressure (closing) and increasing transbronchial pressure (opening) by means of a stereomicroscope with a calibrated eyepiece.
(8) Arthroscope eyepiece misting was eliminated when irrigation fluid at body temperature was used.
(9) This patient represents the first described case in the literature of allergic sensitivity after the use of a video camera eyepiece.
(10) Morphometry proved to be far superior to eyepiece measurements with respect to accuracy and reproducibility of the results.
(11) With direct video endoscopy, the microchip camera is mounted on the distal tip of the endoscope; with indirect video endoscopy, a miniature camera is coupled to the eyepiece of a standard fiberoptic endoscope.
(12) Measurement of the anterior chamber depth by the micrometer eyepiece of the slit lamp is simple and easy.
(13) They were assessed objectively at each attendance by measurement of the lesions with an operating microscope fitted with a measuring grid in one eyepiece.
(14) In view of the limitations of linear measurement and the high cost and complexity of computer aided microscopy, we propose that a simple stereological technique using an eyepiece graticule is the method of choice in the quantitative assessment of mucosal architecture in jejunal biopsy specimens.
(15) Then the sections, 6 micron thick, stained with Haematoxylin-eosine, Alcian blue, PAS and Van Gieson methods were accurately examined at microscope with a graduated eyepiece.
(16) The teeth were split longitudinally and the extent of dye penetration was determined with a stereomicroscope and eyepiece micrometer.
(17) The change in diameter was measured by an image-shearing eyepiece and television microscopy.
(18) This paper offers the quantitative morphological data (light-optical morphometry with the aid of a graduated eyepiece micrometer) of some mesenchymal children tumours.
(19) A pair of small heaters were designed to clamp over the eyepiece tubes of a standard operating microscope and their effectivity assessed.
(20) It images a dot on the center of the lens under test on the scale in the eyepiece.
Microscope
Definition:
(n.) An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(2) Light microscopic studies of pancreata from mice sacrificed at this time demonstrated insulitis and beta cell necrosis.
(3) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(4) It is concluded that the present method for demonstration of aryl sulphatase activity is not well suited for microscopical identification of lysosomes in rat liver parenchymal cells.
(5) Histological and electron-microscopic study of the lungs of 15 patients who had been treated with bleomycin for advanced squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated marked histological changes in nine.
(6) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
(7) Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry revealed histamine-immunostaining in granules in a small number of nerve fibers and varicosities.
(8) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(9) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(10) Widely varying numbers of endocrine cells were identified in 12 out of 64 cases of uterine cancer in the course of histochemical and electron microscopic examination.
(11) Significantly better survival was found in patients with T2 tumors in comparison with patients with T3 and T4 tumors, in patients with infrastructural localization in comparison with patients with suprastructural localization and in patients with microscopic residual tumor in comparison with MRT patients.
(12) At the light-microscopic level, adrenergic fibres were identified due to their formaldehyde-induced fluorescence.
(13) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(14) Histochemical and electron microscopic examinations confirmed that this biochemical lesion was associated with abnormal intracellular accumulation of unesterified cholesterol in mutant lymphocytes.
(15) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(16) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(17) Total excisional biopsy is necessary to properly assess an adenoma microscopically.
(18) Examination was by means of counter immunoelectrophoresis, radioimmunoassay and electron microscope with negative staining.
(19) Twenty-seven human septums were removed at post mortem, examined macroscopically, sectioned coronally and examined microscopically.
(20) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.