(n.) A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microform cleft lip is a mild expression of cleft lip and may be difficult to repair.
(2) Variation in surgical repair is reported for each type of microform cleft lip.
(3) Microtia should be considered a microform of hemifacial microsomia because of similar (1) asymmetrical nature of the defects, (2) incidence and pattern of seventh nerve paresis, (3) correlation of the degree of seventh nerve weakness with grade of auricular deformity and not with the severity of mandibular hypoplasia, (4) right-sided preponderance, (5) incidence of associated cleft lip and palate, (6) male predilection, and (7) equivocal mode of inheritance.
(4) Acetylsalicylic acid influences the yak platelet plasma membrane inducing fragmentation, which is attended by a rise in the total number of platelets, by the appearance of a great number of microforms, and by the reduction of functional activity.
(5) The macroform occurred in 10%, the microform in 56%, and both types in the same patients in 31%.
(6) The patients' erosions were divisible into macroform and microform types.
(7) Correlation of hypodontia with systemic disease leads to the hypothesis that this frequent dental anomaly may in some cases be a microform of systemic ectodermal dysplasia.
(8) There was a positive correlation between levels of certain amino acids and the number of pathologically motile spermatozoa, particularly microforms and head alterations.
(9) Most conspicuous are microforms, nuclear-cytoplasmic disorganization and nuclear inclusions.
(10) An increase in the number of platelet microforms due to the fragmentation of the normal-sized platelets has been noted along with the ultrastructural signs of platelet activation, degranulation and alterations of plasma membrane structure.
(11) Further atypias involved megakaryopoiesis which displayed microforms probably as an evidence for maturation arrest.
(12) Some problems related to genetic counselling and identification of microforms are illustrated by cleft lip and palate.
(13) There was no hypernasality of speech in 27 of the 30 patients with submucous CP or its microforms, and the spontaneous speech of the other three was good.
(14) This would facilitate both classification and diagnosis of microforms.
(15) Both AFP-concanavalin A microforms showed identical fatty acid composition.
(16) Nurses are encouraged to survey and report cases concerning microform cleft lip.
(17) In hyperthyroid rats, a significant reduction (37% relative to controls) in the concanavalin A-non reactive microform of AFP, was observed.
(18) Dental anomalies are viewed as a microform of cleft lip and palate, produced by different modulations of the same operating mechanism.
(19) The results indicate a close relationship between type and degree of the cleft and the arrangement of the muscle bundles: In microforms like lip indentations and minor clefts of the lip the natural anatomy is almost unaltered.
(20) The macroform was more commonly related to trauma than the microform.
Microscopic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Microscopical
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.