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adjectivesemithin (not comparable)
- not comparablesomewhat thin
During embedding, we paid outmost care on the orientation of the specimens, and before cutting ultrathin sections, we observed semithin sections to make sure that the medial part of the central brain is in the cutting surface.
2015 July 6, “Specialized Cortex Glial Cells Accumulate Lipid Droplets in Drosophila melanogaster”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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