7 sentences with 'microscope'
Example sentences and phrases with the word microscope and other words derived from it.
• « Through the eyepiece of his microscope, neurosurgeon Fred Epstein looked for the throbbing mass of nerve tissue. It was the brain stem, a small part of the brain that controls vital functions such as breathing and heartbeat. »
• « These advances include the surgical microscope, which makes it possible to see blood vessels as thin as a human hair; computerized tomography; magnetic resonance imaging; the laser beam.... »
• « With a foot pedal I lowered the surgical microscope and peered through it to examine the child's tumor. »
• « Shortly after his death, other physicians used a new invention, the microscope, to detect the capillaries that connect arteries to other tissues. »
• « The Dutch scientist Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) invented the microscope, and in the 1670s was able to identify what were later called bacteria. »
• « But modern biochemistry and the electron microscope ended up proving Darwin right: of the 250,000 flowering plants catalogued, only 500 feed on the insects, protozoa or microcrustaceans that dare to pass close to their jaws or tentacles. »
• « Doubts about the authenticity were dispelled in 1977, when with the help of an electron microscope it was possible to establish that the traces of corrosion on the edges of the object and the incisions indicate an ancient date. What still remains a mystery is why the plan was drawn on the brick. »