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UK
/mˌaɪkɹəskˈɒpɪkli/
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[ US /ˌmaɪkɹəˈskɑpɪkɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌmaɪkɹəˈskɑpɪkɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
as if by using a microscope; with extreme precision and attention to detail; in minute detail
every manuscript was edited microscopically -
by using a microscope; so as to be visible only with a microscope; as seen with a microscope
the seeds were microscopically small
the blood was examined microscopically
How To Use microscopically In A Sentence
- the seeds were microscopically small
- The lesion was a lobulated circumscribed tumor mass composed microscopically of a monomorphic population of ductal cells.
- For observation of conidiophore structure, coverslips with aerial hyphae and conidiophores attached were dipped into 100% ethanol, mounted on slides, and observed microscopically.
- I have no word to say for or about the microscopically unimportant excessivist, the dipsomaniac. Chapter 2
- Microscopically, a neutrophilic exudate is seen involving the meninges at the left, with prominent dilated vessels.
- Another essential quality that we nowadays attribute to atoms is that they are microscopically small.
- In others, again, are found considerable quantities of soft powdery iron oxide or "gossan," and compounds such as limonite, aluminous clay, etc., which, under the action of the crushing mill become finely divided and float off in water as "slimes," carrying with them atoms of gold, often microscopically small. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
- The tissue is examined microscopically to rule out or confirm cancer.
- I started to work eagerly on the induction of specific chromosomal aberrations in adenovirus type 12-infected human cells, simultaneously studying a DNA-replication disturbance of individual chromosomes in human lymphoblastoid and lymphoma cell lines, and, to please my mentor, I demonstrated electron microscopically the presence of EBV particles directly in individual serologically antigen-positive Burkitt's lymphoma cells. Harald zur Hausen - Autobiography
- The cells from random spore colonies were examined microscopically.