(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.
Photomicrograph
Definition:
(n.) An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.
(n.) A microscopically small photograph of an object.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.
(2) In submandibular glands, 1 to 4 weeks after ovariectomy, no changes were observed in percentages of the acinar, intercalated duct, and granular convoluted tubular areas occupying photomicrographs.
(3) Depending on the slit width of the illumination source, a typical endothelial photomicrograph contains three or four distinct zones.
(4) All the specimens were examined in a scanning electron microscope at x1000 and photomicrographs taken which were then assessed, independently, by the authors.
(5) Sequential photomicrographs of RBCs passing through interendothelial slits (IES) in walls of venous sinuses in rat spleen were obtained by video recording in vivo microscopic views.
(6) The specular photomicrographic characteristics were similar to those of fibroblast-like cells and foreign-body giant cells, which had been shown on the surfaces of extracted implanted intraocular lenses by the lens implant cytology technique.
(7) Photomicrographs of 100 cells were examined for trypsin-induced G-bands, and the length of each chromosome was measured.
(8) The mucus was stretched on a microscope slide, and a cover slip was placed over a portion of the sample and dried for 24-48 hours at 37 degrees C. Photomicrographs were taken under dark-field illumination.
(9) Each photomicrograph was graded for cellular morphologic transformation and a judgement as to whether DES treatment had been used.
(10) The tissue sections and matching autoradiograms were compared directly from photomicrographs of each.
(11) The normal morphology of sexually mature and productive male and female O. volvulus is described and illustrated by photomicrographs.
(12) Scanning photomicrographs were obtained at 2,000, 6,000, and 40,000 magnifications.
(13) Most of these cultured cells were Thy-1+ Lyt-1- Lyt-2+, and contained cytoplasmic granules similar to those seen in electron photomicrographs of other cytotoxic cell populations.
(14) The area of the synovium of each knee joint was determined using survey photomicrographs and a morphometer.
(15) After fusion myeloma cells containing at least 1 nucleus from a lymphocyte (heterokaryons) were counted from fluorescence photomicrographs and the heterokaryon frequency was calculated.
(16) Observations and size parameter calculations from EM photomicrographs were consistent with the results from light scattering.
(17) The mean scores of the students on a test of interpretation of photomicrographs of blood smears increased significantly after use of the teaching programme.
(18) Also, the electron photomicrographs revealed structures similar to those of gram-positive bacilli.
(19) The results are documented with light and electron photomicrographs.
(20) The vessel topology was documented in the form of photomicrographs, which permitted complete reconstruction of the microvasculature on transparent overlays.