electron micrograph

noun

: a micrograph made with an electron microscope
electron micrography noun

Examples of electron micrograph in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This digitally colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) revealed some of the comparative ultrastructural morphology between normal red blood cells (RBCs), and a sickle cell RBC (left) found in a blood specimen of an 18-year-old female patient with sickle cell anemia. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023 The beam can produce conventional transmission electron micrograph (TEM) images, but without additional steps for TEM’s staining or polymer fixation. IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2023 The general idea was not new: geologist Robert Folk of the University of Texas has for years claimed to see bacteria on electron micrographs of dolomite and other carbonate crystals. Rachel Preiser, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 The authors’ lidar consists of two parts: a silicon photonic chip and a semiconductor chip [electron micrograph at left]. Michael Watts, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2023 An electron micrograph image of a soil-dwelling hermaphrodite nematode worm. Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023 Enlarge / An electron micrograph of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 May 2023 And in July, Gubler sounded the warning in an issue of A transmission electron micrograph of Zika virus. Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2016 Hind limb of an African clawed frog © Heather Angel/Natural Visions/Alamy; a scanning electron micrograph of an African clawed frog tadpole © Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/Science Source; and an image of the Xenopus pregnancy test from a 1938 article by Edward R. Elkan in the British Medical Journal. Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of electron micrograph was in 1934

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“Electron micrograph.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electron%20micrograph. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

Medical Definition

electron micrograph

noun
: a micrograph made with an electron microscope
electron micrography noun
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