dissecting needle , also: probe *

Find the mouth, put a dissecting needle behind the head and another about half way down the body.

With a dissecting needle, he shoves at the trigger.

The case has a small wooden box which contains three dissecting needles in wooden handles.

He selected a long, slender dissecting needle.

Harry and Murray became very expert at throwing dissecting needles over the cupboards and into the doors.

(iii) Tease the material apart using the blunt edge of the scalpel and a dissecting needle.

Plants ( Nicotiana glauca ) were inoculated by wounding the stem with a dissecting needle.

Where's your dissecting needle?

By poking about with a dissecting needle it was obvious that these little threads were very strong, exactly how strong it was difficult to say (Plate 12).

(ii)Dip spatula into well mixed sample up to 10 mm line and transfer a sample portion onto the approximate centre of the disk, using a dissecting needle to facilitate the transfer.

In autumn, molt is irregular, or at best is coincident over large parts of the body, and frequently is seen only by searching through the pelage with a fine probe or dissecting needle.

The procedures used in this laboratory for making solid dissecting needles and holding pipettes are given in Table 13 and those for in vivo injection pipettes in Table 14.

We used to bend the whiskers under the microscope with a dissecting needle and, having measured the thickness and radius of curvature very approximately we could estimate the breaking strain by simple beam theory.

They varied in size from about 0.5 mm. to 2.0 mm and had not been flatted or smashed when I made a slide preparation with a coverglass, so I took a dissecting needle and pressed on the coverglass.

Absence of Newton's rings indicates dirt preventing proper seating of cover glass on shoulders which results in chamber holding an incorrect volume of sample. 3.3.4.3 Clean spatula and dissecting needle, rinse in distilled water, flame and cool.