A doctor who suspects skin cancer will remove all or part of the mole for microscopic examination.
A dull stony-looking rock results, the vitreous lustre having entirely disappeared, and in microscopic section this exhibits a cryptocrystalline structure, being made up of exceedingly minute grains principally of quartz and felspar.
A microscopic voice inside warned her to stop, but desire put uncontrolled passion into her response.
A probiotics definition includes tiny, microscopic organisms that many people believe benefit the human body and digestive system.
A simple sponge is a bag of cells surrounding a cavity, supported by microscopic spicules.
A skin biopsy involves removing a small sample of skin and examining its microscopic structure.
A Viet Nam village looks microscopic from 30,000 feet.
A wing is an outgrowth from the dorsal and pleural regions of the thoracic segment that bears it, and microscopic examination shows it to consist of a double layer of cuticularized skin, the two layers being in contact except where they are thickened and folded to form the firm tubular nervures, which serve as a supporting framework for the wing membrane, enclose air-tubes, and convey blood.
Abandoning the long and somewhat heavy magnetic needles that had been used up to that date in galvanometers, he attached to the back of a very small mirror made of microscopic glass a fragment of magnetized watch-spring, and suspended the mirror and needle by means of a cocoon fibre in the centre of a coil of insulated wire.
African mines the diamonds are not only crystals of various weights from fractions of a carat to 150 carats, but also occur as microscopic crystals disseminated through the blue ground.
All along one side is a microscopic ciliated groove, into which the mud does not seem to enter, and along which a continuous stream of water may be kept up. Possibly this is respiratory - there are no special respiratory organs.
All houses contain large numbers of microscopic insects called house mites.
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.
Although much progress has been made in determining the value and constancy of morphological characters, we are still in need of a sufficiently comprehensive and easily applied scheme of classification, partly owing to the existence in the literature of imperfectly described forms, the life-history of which is not yet known, or the microscopic characters of which have not been examined with sufficient accuracy and thoroughness.
As the microscopic character of the corallum of these extinct forms agrees with that of recent corals, it may be assumed that the anatomy of the soft parts also was similar, and the tetrameral arrange ment, when present, may obviously be referred to a stage when only the first two pairs of Edwardsian mesenteries were present and septa were formed in the intervals between them.
Aurous cyanide, AuCN, forms yellow, microscopic, hexagonal tables, insoluble in water, and is obtained by the addition of hydrochloric acid to a solution of potassium aurocyanide, KAu(CN)2.
Because of their microscopic size once an aquatic form of algae begins growing in a swimming pool, it generally goes unnoticed until there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of organisms.
Biopsy-The surgical removal and microscopic examination of living tissue for diagnostic purposes or to follow the course of a disease.
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.
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.
Certain varieties, notably some from Russia, possess a beautiful metallic sheen, referable to the presence of either microscopic fissures or enclosures.
Chromosome-A microscopic thread-like structure found within each cell of the human body and consisting of a complex of proteins and DNA.
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.
Complex and/or invasive procedures such as skin or muscle biopsy (taking a small sample of tissue for microscopic evaluation) are considered tertiary tests.
Confirmation may also be obtained by taking a bone marrow sample (bone marrow biopsy) for microscopic examination.
Dead, microscopic algae will clump together into particles large enough to be removed by filtration.
Deeper than this, microscopic life is scanty; there is practically no reproduction and growth.
Definitive diagnosis is achieved through karyotyping, which involves drawing the baby's blood for a microscopic examination of the chromosomes.
Diagnosis for eosinophilic gastroenteropathies is therefore only established on microscopic analysis of a tissue specimen (biopsy) revealing eosinophilic infiltration.
Diagnosis is based on microscopic examination of scrapings taken from lesions.
During three years he was experimental assistant to Alfred Donne (1801-1878) in his course of lectures on microscopic anatomy.
Ehrenberg adds a list of 8 Polygastric Infusoria, 1 fossil infusorian, 5 Phytolitharia and several microscopic fungi.
Electric current can also be described as the flow of microscopic particles called electrons flowing through wires and electronic components and appliances.
Electric current can be described as the flow of microscopic particles called electrons through wires and electrical appliances.
Experiments on alloys are, in some ways, easier to make than on pairs of non-metallic substances, partly owing to the possibility of polishing sections for microscopic examination, and the investigation of alloys has done much to elucidate the general phenomena of solution, of which metallic solution constitutes a special case.
Flukes are microscopic parasites that embed themselves in the gills of the fish.
For example, those with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, type 1 diabetes, autoimmune thyroid disease or microscopic colitis may be more at risk than the average person.
For the microscopic observation it is the same as if a thin section of a thickness of 2 to 4 had been shown.
Glessite, a nearly opaque brown resin, with numerous microscopic cavities and dusty enclosures, named from glesum, an old name for amber.
Gonococcal urethritis is diagnosed in 98 per cent of men by microscopic examination of the discharge obtained from a urethral swab.
Hansen showed that the microscopic appearance of film cells of the same species of Saccharomycetes varies according to the temperature of growth; the limiting temperatures of film formation, as well as the time of its appearance for the different species, also vary.
He has moreover elaborated a method for preserving Rotif era for microscopic observation, so that the types of each observer are now as readily available for comparison as the plant-specimens of the botanist's herbarium.
Heat inactivated serum did not produce any clinical signs, nor gross or microscopic lesions.
Helmholtz in 1871 is the ` foundation of the important doctrine of the microscopic limit.
Her other works are the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834), Physical Geography (1848), and Molecular and Microscopic Science (1869).
His true greatness can only be estimated by a consideration of the fact that he was a great teacher not only of human and comparative anatomy and zoology but also of physiology, and that nearly all the most distinguished German zoologists and physiologists of the period 1850 to 1870 were his pupils and acknowledged his leadership. The most striking feature about Johann Miller's work, apart from the comprehensiveness of his point of view, in which he added to the anatomical and morphological ideas of Cuvier a consideration of physiology, embryology and microscopic structure, was the extraordinary accuracy, facility and completeness of his recorded observations.
His work shows an almost microscopic evaluation of surface.
However, it's almost microscopic size (just a few inches long, the size of an iPOD) and bright, crisp screen make it very attractive for gamers needing a truly portable device.
However, the vast majority of environmental data is very small - even microscopic.
If an infection is suspected or if an abrasion does not heal, then swabbing of the eye for microscopic culture may be done to definitively establish the organism involved.
If microscopic preparations are observed by diffused daylight or by the more or less white light of the usual artificial sources, then an objective of fixed numerical aperture will only represent details of a definite fineness.
If the physician suspects a fungal infection of the scalp, a hair sample may be tested by microscopic examination in the laboratory.
Illuminating Systems Most microscopic observations are made with transmitted light; an illuminating arrangement is therefore necessary, and as the plane of the object is nearly always horizontal or only slightly inclined, the illuminating rays must be directed along the optical axis of the microscope.
In many cases, these tests cannot detect the microscopic damage that occurs when fibers are stretched in a mild, diffuse injury.
In microscopic section the best slates show much colourless mica in small, thin, irregular scales.
In microscopic structure they all present the closest agreement with one another.
In most microscopic observations the object is mounted on a plane glass plate or slide about o 06 in.
In some anemias, a bone marrow sample will be removed (bone marrow biopsy) for microscopic examination, especially to confirm iron deficiency anemia or the megaloblastic anemias.
In some cases, a microscopic examination of skin cells is also performed.
In the eyes of a Chinese connoisseur, no blue-and-white porcelain worthy of consideration exists, or ever has existed, except the kai-pien-yao, with its imponderable pdle, its wax-like surface, and its rich, glowing blue, entirely free from superficiality or garishness and broken into a thousand tints by the microscopic crackle of the glaze.
In the immense region which Gibbon surveyed there is hardly a section which has not been submitted to the microscopic examination of specialists.
In the microscopic examination of a stained blood smear (differential), red cells may appear smaller than normal.
Initially microscopic organisms feed on the more succulent ingredients in the pile.
Inside your digestive system are millions of microscopic organisms.
It crystallizes in microscopic rhombohedra insoluble in cold acids.
It forms microscopic hexagonal plates having a silver-white streak.
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.
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.
It's not about showing every inch of skin in a microscopic garment.
Its food consists of microscopic organisms and organic particles; these are drawn into the mouth FIG.
Just as a granite is a conglomerate or mechanical mixture of distinct crystalline grains of three perfectly definite minerals, mica, quartz, and felspar, so iron and steel in their usual slowly cooled state consist of a mixture of microscopic particles of such definite quasiminerals, diametrically unlike.
Kliman and the team identified trophoblast inclusions by performing microscopic examinations of placental tissues.
Laboratory testing of urine samples as of the early 2000s can be performed with dipsticks that indicate immune system responses to infection, as well as with microscopic analysis of samples.
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.
Many of the Egyptian rocks in the desert areas and at the cataracts are coated with a highly polished film, of almost microscopic thinness, consisting chiefly of oxides of iron and manganese with salts of magnesia and lime.
Martin Turner takes you on a journey from the motion of a microscopic particle to the creation of imaginary moonscapes.
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.
Microscopic examination fully confirms the existence of these compounds.
Microscopic examination of a hair plucked at the periphery of the hair loss area often reveals a characteristic disruption of the integrity of the hair shaft.
Microscopic examination of a specimen of mature cotton shows that the hairs are flattened and twisted, resembling somewhat in general appearance an empty and twisted fire hose.
Microscopic examination of the mimic and model cuticle may also reveal some interesting parallels.
Microscopic examination of the smear can identify which type of bacteria has been collected.
Microscopic fungi are usually preserved in envelopes, or simply attached to sheets of paper or mounted as microscopic slides.
Microscopic sections of some of the more coherent clays and shales may be prepared by saturating them with Canada balsam by long boiling, and slicing the resultant mass in the same manner as one of the harder rocks.
Microscopic sections show that flint is very finely crystalline and consists of quartz or chalcedonic silica; colloidal or amorphous silica may also be present but cannot form any considerable part of the rock.
Mite-galls, or acarocecidia, are abnormal growths of the leaves of plants, produced by microscopic Acaridea of the genus Phytoptus (gall-mites), and consist of little tufts of hairs, or of thickened portions of the leaves, usually most hypertrophied on the upper surface, so that the lower is drawn up into the interior, producing a bursiform cavity.
Mites are microscopic; they can get under the skin where they crawl around and drive a dog crazy with the itching.
Molds are composed of numerous, microscopic, branching hyphae known collectively as a mycelium.
Most frequently they occur lying on the bedding planes of black shales; less commonly they are met with in many other kinds of sediment, and when in limestone they may retain much of their original relief and admit of a detailed microscopic study.
Muscle biopsy, in which a small piece of muscle tissue is removed for microscopic examination.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a microscopic, rod-shaped bacterium.
Namako is obtained by punching the whole surfaceexcept the portion carrying the decorative designinto a texture of microscopic dots.
New clients are given a free consultation and a microscopic hair and scalp analysis to help determine which treatment plan is best for their particular type of hair loss.
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.
No doubt careful microscopic scrutiny of the minute anatomy of the leaves of plants grown under various conditions would reveal further adaptations of structure to external conditions of climate.
No serious observer, acquainted with modern microscopic technical methods, has been able to confirm the explanation of their observations.
None of the company's products are tested on animals, and they all incorporate both organic ingredients and state-of-the-art microscopic technology to offer the best hair care available.
Note that many of the fine lines in the low magnification photomicrographs are actually trails of microscopic bubbles!
Numbers of microscopic fields assessed per section and of sections per animal has been selected to minimize variance between animals.
Obviously, something this microscopic in size can't be seen without the use of a high-powered microscope.
One of the few uses of crown-glass of this kind is the glass slides upon which microscopic specimens are mounted, as well as the thin glass slips with which such preparations are covered.
One side has many microscopic hooks that connect to your bra and other side is made from a soft, comfortable non-slip material.
One way of receiving a stereoscopic impression through a microscope is by fixing an apparatus as directly as possible above the last lens of the microscopic objective, which divides the rays passing out and directs half into each eyepiece.
Owing to their want of adhesiveness, they are, however, usually mounted on glass as microscopic slides, either in glycerin jelly, Canada balsam or some other suitable medium.
Pasteur showed that the origin of the disease proceeded from microscopic organisms called ferments and vitrios.
Pasteur that the occurrence of abiogenesis in the microscopic world was disproved as much as its occurrence in the macroscopic world.
Physical examination and routine x rays may yield enough evidence to diagnose benign bone tumors, but removal of tumor tissue for microscopic analysis (biopsy) is the only sure way to rule out malignancy.
Pollen starts life as a microscopic powder, but bees mix it with a few other substances to pack it into a thicker, more granular form that is easier to carry and store.
Print of microscopic size may be read; a watch ticking in another room can be heard.
Quadrant III Quadrant III gives a macroscopic, not microscopic view, in other words a ' bird's-eye-view ' .
Removing a small piece of muscle tissue for microscopic examination is called a muscle biopsy.
Scale-mosses are mounted in the same way, or may be floated out in water like sea-weeds, and dried in white blotting paper under strong pressure before gumming on paper, but are best mounted as microscopic slides, care being taken to show the stipules.
Spores are usually microscopic, and are produced in a variety of ways.
Sputum cytology involves the microscopic examination of phlegm that is coughed up from the lungs.
Stirring your drink will not result in the coolness provided by the microscopic chips of ice floating in your drink after a good turn in the cocktail shaker.
Stomata occur on both surfaces of the leaves, and, with the peculiar hair structure render the microscopic appearance of the plant highly characteristic.
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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.
Such microscopic examination requires the use of the finest lenses and the application of various staining methods.
T. pallidum subspecies endemicum can be detected by microscopic study of samples taken from the sores or lymph fluid.
Tapeworm eggs are passed out in the dung and eaten by a microscopic mite which lives on the pasture.
Tests are also available to check stool samples for microscopic amounts of blood and for cells that indicate severe inflammation of the colon.
The asterism seems due to the presence of microscopic tubular cavities, or to enclosure of crystalline minerals, arranged in a definite system.
The bacteria that cause TB are inhaled in the form of microscopic droplets that come from a person infected with TB.
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.
The distinctive microscopic anatomy of hazel wood allows definite identification of well-preserved specimens of wood and charcoal.
The doctor may scrape off a small piece of affected skin for microscopic examination or direct the person to discontinue use of any potential irritant that has recently come into contact with the affected area.
The Dyson DC23 is a canister vacuum cleaner featuring Level III Root Cyclone technology that captures microscopic dust.
The efforts of the best minds in zoology had been directed for thirty years or more to ascertaining with increased accuracy and minuteness the structure, microscopic and gross, of all possible forms of animals, and not only of the adult structure but of the steps of development of that structure in the growth of each kind of organism from the egg to maturity.
The eggs quickly progress to the larval stage, where they continue their development by eating microscopic debris including dander, feces, and dead skin cells.
The entosternites are cartilaginous in texture, but they have neither the chemical character nor the microscopic structure of the hyaline cartilage of Vertebrates.
The errors attending the determination of the size of a microscopic object depend chiefly on the accuracy of the objective micrometer; any errors in the micrometer being magnified by the objective.
The experiment of Engelmann referred to deserves to be mentioned here, if only in illustration .of the use to which algae have been put in the study of physiological problems. Engelmann observed that certain bacteria were motile only in the presence of oxygen, and that they retained their motility in a microscopic preparation in the neighbourhood of an algal filament when they had come to rest elsewhere on account of the exhaustion of oxygen.
The extreme value possible for a is a right angle, so that for the microscopic limit we have Z X o/µ (2).
The fibre is decidedly inferior to flax and hemp in strength and tenacity; and, owing to a peculiarity in its microscopic structure, by which the walls of the separate cells composing the fibre vary much in thickness at different points, the single strands of fibre are of unequal strength.
The forms comprised in the various groups, whilst exhibiting an extreme range of variety in shape, as may be seen on comparing an oyster, a cuttle-fish, and a sea-slug such as Doris; whilst adapted, some to life on dry land, others to the depths of the sea, others to rushing streams; whilst capable, some of swimming, others of burrowing, crawling or jumping, some, on the other hand, fixed and immobile; some amongst the most formidable of carnivores, others feeding on vegetable mud, or on the minutest of microscopic organisms - yet all agree in possessing in common a very considerable number of structural details which are not possessed in common by any other animals.
The image right shows a rotifer, a microscopic organism that can be found in a bird-bath or roof gutter.
The investigation of the microscopic pelagic life of the sea has also developed to a great extent.
The Jane Iredale mineral collection is "micro-pulverized" using a technological process that forms flat, microscopic crystals.
The microscopic findings of the resected mass showed a stromal cell component by immunohistochemical stain.
The Microscopic Follicular Unit Hair Transplant is done with the use of high-powered surgical microscopes.
The microscopic fungi responsible for toenail fungus are found, not surprisingly, in damp areas like shower stalls, public gyms and swimming pools.
The minute microscopic structure of the gastric glands in the two animals is practically identical.
The mudflats are crammed with tasty microscopic worms and marine worms, lots of lovely food to over 20,000 birds.
The nature of sterilization, and the difficulties in securing it, as well as the extreme delicacy of the manipulations necessary, made it possible for a very long time to be doubtful as to the application of the phrase omne vivum e vivo to the microscopic world, and there still remain a few belated supporters of abiogenesis.
The only motion in the air was that of the dripping, microscopic particles of drizzling mist.
The plumage of gorgeously-hued birds, the blossoms of flowers (especially the hydrangea), the folds of thick brocade, microscopic diapers and arabesques, are built up with tiny fragments of iridescent shell, in combination with silver-foil, goldlacquer and colored bone, the whole producing a rich and sparkling effect.
The polypide consists of a "lophophore" bearing a series of ciliated tentacles by which Diatoms and other microscopic bodies are collected as food, of a U-shaped alimentary canal, and of a central nervous system.
The removal and microscopic examination of tiny bits of tissue (biopsy) from any suspicious areas found on an x-ray exam can be performed by either traditional or newer surgical techniques.
The result is a material filled with thousands of microscopic pores.
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.
The rocks are typically ' cleaner ' quartz sands and rather unfossiliferous apart from beds of microscopic sponge spicules.
The side that attaches to the strap is comprised of microscopic hooks, while the opposite side is a hypoallergenic material that acts to grip against the skin, without any adhesives to leave a nasty residue.
The sine-condition is, however, the most important as far as the microscopic representation is concerned, because it must be possible to represent a surfaceelement through the objective by wide cones of rays.
The slits may be cut out of tin-plate, and half covered by mica or " microscopic glass," held in position by a little cement.
The theory describes the elementary particles as microscopic stringlike objects with a size of around 10-35m.
The true leaves are only microscopic scales of a brown, papery texture.
These are microscopic bugs that live off dead skin cells that are shed by people, a normal part of life and health.
These images complement light microscopic images by revealing structural detail not observable by light microscopy.
These microscopic organisms break down soil matter into usable nutrients for plants.
These microscopic particles now have an electric charge which enables them to stick to surfaces more easily.
This disease is caused by a microscopic parasite called Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, and it resembles small, white dots along the body of the fish.
This disturbance results in disintegration to a varying degree, and may produce changes visible on microscopic examination.
This is a microscopic point of agreement, but is none the less significant.
This is a result of microscopic burns on the skin.
This is the case with the copper-tin alloys containing less than 9% by weight of tin; a microscopic examination reveals only one material, a copper-like substance, the tin having disappeared, being in solution in the copper.
This snail-shaped structure contains fluid and thousands of microscopic hair cells tuned to various frequencies, in addition to the organ of Corti (the receptor for hearing).
This, in turn, may kill off the microscopic fungi causing the problem in the first place.
Thousands of microscopic robots armed with tiny tweezers could pluck the Moon bare in a matter of weeks.
Throughout the human digestive tract, millions of microscopic organisms help digest food and transform food into useful nutrients.
Thus he suggests that man has not eyes of a microscopic delicacy, because he would receive no great advantage from such acute organs, since though adding indefinitely to his speculative knowledge of the physical world they would 1 Yet he leaves open the question whether the Deity has annexed thought to matter as a faculty, or whether it rests on a distinct spiritual principle.
To extend the duration of an application the granules can be coated with a resin which has microscopic pores to release the fertilizer.
Urine and blood tests may be ordered to check for microscopic amounts of blood in the urine and to obtain a complete differential blood count.
Using the latest photographic technology, these images capture in close up microscopic plankton living deep beneath the sea.
Various attempts have been made to classify corals according to the arrangement of the septa, the characters of the theca, the microscopic structure of the corallurn, and the anatomy of the soft parts.
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.
We try to understand the relation between the microscopic rheological behavior and the bulk rheology.
When heated in a vacuum to 530 it sublimes, and on condensation forms microscopic needles.
When you exercise, you do microscopic damage to your muscle cells.
Written by DM Benson, Plant Pathologist, this fact sheet provides information on the pest nematodes, which are microscopic roundworms.
Yeast - a simple, unicellular, microscopic plant that causes the fermentation of sugars to alcohol and carbon dioxide.
You're going to want a heel for a special occasion, but pumps with microscopic toothpick heels aren't the best for an outside wedding.