ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electron microscopy mean? 

• ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (noun)
  The noun ELECTRON MICROSCOPY has 1 sense:

1. microscopy with the use of electron microscopes

  Familiarity information: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Microscopy with the use of electron microscopes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("electron microscopy" is a kind of...):

microscopy (research with the use of microscopes)

 Context examples 

The hydrophobic portion of the plasma membrane as seen during transmission electron microscopy because there is little to no binding of the detection reagent.

(Electron-Lucent Plasma Membrane Layer, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrophilic portions of the plasma membrane as seen during transmission electron microscopy.

(Electron-Dense Plasma Membrane Layer, NCI Thesaurus)

A shared facility which provides services for electron microscopy.

(Electron Microscopy Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

The Immunoelectron Microscopy Shared Resource provides support to Cancer Center investigators in ultrastructural analysis by conventional electron microscopy in conjunction with immunolocalization techniques, including ultra-cryomicrotomy, and internal antigens immuno-labeling.

(Immunoelectron Microscopy Shared Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

A microscopy staining method that utilizes lead citrate, a mixture of lead nitrate and sodium citrate, and has applications for electron microscopy staining.

(Lead Citrate Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Invasive embryonal neoplasm of the pineal gland showing neuronal differentiation histologically (Homer-Wright and/or Flexner-Wintersteiner rosette formation) by immunohistochemistry (synaptophysin, chromogranin, or NSE expression), or by electron microscopy (dense core vesicles and microtubules).

(Mouse Pineoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A finding resulting from the examination of a tissue sample under light or electron microscopy.

(Microscopic Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

These structural changes (almost like a noodle snaking through the heart) lead to an appearance of mitochondrial fragmentation when imaged by conventional electron microscopy.

(Excess Fat Disrupts Heart Cell's Energy System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Electron microscopy shows small secretory granules.

(Carcinoid Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Electron microscopy showed that the microbes were entangled in beta-amyloid fibers extending from the surfaces of the fungal cells, suggesting an entrapment role for beta-amyloid.

(Alzheimer’s protein may have natural antibiotic role, NIH)