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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs; ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of ...
Miner's phthisis, Grinder's asthma, Potter's rot, [1] pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis [2] [3] Slice of a lung affected by silicosis: Specialty: Pulmonology: Types: Chronic silicosis: includes two types itself, simple silicosis and progressive massive fibrosis, Accelerated silicosis, Acute silicosis: Differential diagnosis
It sounds good, but doesn't work. The fact that microscopic is included doesn't mean you can split it into two words, because then the words make no sense. pneumono goes with osis, otherwise you get lungs very extremely small rather than lungs full of very extremely small volcanic silica dust, the disease. --Ben Brockert 03:35, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
Ultramicrobacteria are bacteria that are smaller than 0.1 μm 3 under all growth conditions. [1] [2] [3] This term was coined in 1981, describing cocci in seawater that were less than 0.3 μm in diameter. [4] Ultramicrobacteria have also been recovered from soil and appear to be a mixture of gram-positive, gram-negative and cell-wall-lacking ...
The survival of some microorganisms exposed to outer space has been studied using both simulated facilities and low Earth orbit exposures. Bacteria were some of the first organisms investigated, when in 1960 a Russian satellite carried Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus, and Enterobacter aerogenes into orbit. [1]
It is one of the few methods available to quantify cellular structure and components without using fluorescence. [1] After its invention in the early 1930s, [ 2 ] phase-contrast microscopy proved to be such an advancement in microscopy that its inventor Frits Zernike was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953. [ 3 ]
Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells have an elongated shape that is approximately 0.1–0.2 μm (100–200 nm) in width and 1–2 μm (1000-2000 nm) in length. The extremely small cell size means they are incapable of being examined by light microscopy ; a stereomicroscope is required for viewing the morphology of M. pneumoniae colonies , which are ...
Ultrastructure (or ultra-structure) is the architecture of cells and biomaterials that is visible at higher magnifications than found on a standard optical light microscope. This traditionally meant the resolution and magnification range of a conventional transmission electron microscope (TEM) when viewing biological specimens such as cells ...