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Definition of Microns
1. micron [n] - See also: micron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Microns
Literary usage of Microns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"Section 6 2-3 microns in thickness, stained with methylene violet, and magnified
1400 diameters. of left cerebellar hemisphere. External surface. ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1898)
"Traumatic neurosis; average, 93 microns; maximum, 140 microns. Inasmuch as the
irritation due to excision causes considerable contraction of the excised ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"The length increases 8.6 microns with every increase of 10 microns in the depth of
... is —.5232, the breadth decreasing 2.63 microns for each 10 microns ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1904)
"I PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF Cysts: When first obtained, 640 microns in
diameter, with i membrane 95 microns thick. The true cyst mass was therefore ..."
5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1905)
"The true cells, or microcells, are unusually large, about 21 microns. ...
The cells are 20 microns, which is very large. In another group of trees the pores ..."
6. University of Toronto Studies by University of Toronto (1900)
"alternately thicker and thinner than the eight microns at which the microtome
was set. This difference in thickness was neglected in constructing the model, ..."
7. General Medicine (1920)
"Large races of Endamoeba dysenteriae (10-17 microns) stained with iron hematoxylin,
X 2800. (1) Relatively small, free ameba in contracted condition, ..."
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