ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electron microscopic mean? 

• ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC (adjective)
  The adjective ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or involving an electron microscope

  Familiarity information: ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or involving an electron microscope

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

electron microscopy (microscopy with the use of electron microscopes)

 Context examples 

A glomerular disorder characterized by the electron microscopic finding of loss of podocyte foot processes.

(Minimal Change Glomerulonephritis, NCI Thesaurus)

Electron microscopic studies show neurosecretory granules are either absent or, when present, are in small numbers.

(Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma, Hypercalcemic Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A small round cell tumor that lacks morphologic, immunohistochemical, and electron microscopic evidence of neuroectodermal differentiation.

(Ewing sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Electron microscopic studies suggest ependymal differentiation.

(Papillary Tumor of the Pineal Region, NCI Thesaurus)

Electron microscopic study indicates that nucleophosmin is concentrated in the granular region of the nucleolus, where ribosome assembly occurs.

(Nucleophosmin, NCI Thesaurus/from OMIM)

It is composed of cells with the immunophenotypic and electron microscopic features of Schwann cells which contain melanosomes and are positive for melanoma markers.

(Melanotic Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The myeloid origin of the blasts is demonstrated by immunohistochemistry and/or electron microscopic studies.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Minimal Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Electron microscopic studies reveal giant mitochondria, a finding not present in any other type of pituitary gland adenomas.

(Acidophil Stem Cell Pituitary Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)