Definition of Microsphere

1. Noun. Any sphere whose size is measured in micrometres ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Microsphere

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Microsphere

1. Tiny globules of radiolabelled material such as macroaggregated albumin, about 15 microns in size. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microsphere

microsleeps
microslicer
microslicers
microsmatic
microsomal
microsomal antibody
microsomal fraction
microsome
microsomes
microsomia
microsommite
microspectrophotometry
microspectroscope
microspectroscopic
microspectroscopy
microsphere (current term)
microsphere method
microspheres
microspherical
microspherocytosis
microspherule
microspherules
microspherulites
microsphygmy
microsphyxia
microspike
microspikes
microsplanchnic
microsplenia
microspora

Literary usage of Microsphere

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"One microsphere injection of either 125I or ... Immediately at the end of the 2- min prostaglandin D2 infusion, another microsphere injection was made, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"initial chamber (the microsphere) 17—19/A in diameter, while sections of the smaller form show that they sprang from an initial chamber nearly -5 mm. in ..."

3. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"In the protoplasmic casts obtained in this manner the form 1 The diameter of the microsphere varies in the specimens of /'. crispa which I have ..."

4. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"... though at present inconclusive evidence, in favour of the supposition that the microsphere results from the conjugation of two zoospores. ..."

5. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"... The fusion of their nuclei takes place after some delay: ultimately the zygote nucleus divides into two, a shell is formed, and we have the microsphere, ..."

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