Lexic.us

Definition of Binocular microscope

1. Noun. A light microscope adapted to the use of both eyes.

Medical Definition of Binocular microscope

1. A microscope fitted with double eyepieces for vision with both eyes. The purpose in dividing the same image from a single objective of the usual compound micro-scope is to reduce eyestrain and muscular fatigue which may result from monocular, high-power microscopy. The purpose in obtaining a different image for each of two oculars is to provide stereoscopy by means of two different angles of view. There are two kinds of stereoscopic microscopes: binobjective (Greenough) older type and monobjective (common main objective) newer type. (See stereo microscope, Greenough microscope, etc.) (05 Aug 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Binocular Microscope

Literary usage of Binocular microscope

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

1. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"... binocular microscope. size and stoutness, warming it sufficiently to render it flexible, and then turning up its four sides, drawing out one corner into ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... were the following, of which abstracts are published elsewhere: " On a new form of binocular microscope," by President FAP Barnard, of Columbia College. ..."

3. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"... binocular microscope.t—We give the description of this Microscope, translated from the author's German original, with slight modifications only. ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"Such relief being due to tho direct convergence of the axes of two eyes to ono object, he had after some years succeeded in making a binocular microscope ..."

5. The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Applications: Being a by Jabez Hogg (1887)
"M. Nachet also constructed a binocular microscope, upon the same principle as his double microscope, with the tubes placed vertically and 2J inches distant. ..."

6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1853)
"These outer prisms Notice of a binocular microscope. By JL RIDDELL. I DEVISED last year, and have lately constructed and used, a combination of glass prisms ..."

Other Resources: