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microscopical

American  
[mahy-kruh-skahp-ik-uhl] / ˌmaɪ krəˈskɑp ɪk əl /

adjective

  1. involving or relating to microscopes or their use, especially for study or research.


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Day by day, these “atoms” grew and began to cling together until they became, in a couple of weeks, “the true microscopical Animals so often observed by Naturalists.”

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2016

“My Phial swarmed with Life,” he later wrote, “and microscopical Animals of most Dimensions, from some of the largest, to some of the least.”

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2016

The most famous of the microscopical discoveries reported by Hooke in his masterpiece was the ‘cellular’ structure of slices of cork viewed under the microscope.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

So far as microscopical characters go, egg cells and spermatozoa are wonderfully alike in all the mammalia; in many cases we could not distinguish between those of different animals.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

Ferrated and non-ferrated varieties of melanin are thus to be recognized, the term being used in the same way as h�matoidin, indicative of a microscopical appearance.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various