Definitions
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- noun The art of measuring or ascertaining the external form of objects.
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- noun biology the
measurement of theform oforganisms
Etymologies
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Examples
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The sympatric occurrence of the Indian muntjac Muntiacus muntjak further complicates species identification based primarily on morphometry.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Daniel Mietchen is a biophysicist focusing on the application of methods from physics to the study of evolution, with a current emphasis on brain morphometry.
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Pienitz et al. [31] showed that the same abiotic parameters, along with lake morphometry, explain the greatest percentage of variance in diatom community composition in northwestern Canada.
Changes in aquatic biota and ecosystem structure and function in the Arctic 2009
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I gather there are also tests that use fossil morphometry, but I know essentially nothing about those.
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Bile canalicular morphometry in arteriohepatic dysplasia.
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In the second case, a chronocline spanning 15,000 to 20,000 years and expressing the transition of an extinct fossil form to the modern form found on the south coast was documented by morphometry of fossils dated by amino acid racemization and radiocarbon.
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The Neuro research team's objective therefore was to investigate neuroanatomical differences using a dual-analytic approach, combining cortical thickness analysis (CT) and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) together for the first time in the same participants.
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The Neuro research team's objective therefore was to investigate neuroanatomical differences using a dual-analytic approach, combining cortical thickness analysis (CT) and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) together for the first time in the same participants.
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Figure 3: Protein analysis, morphometry and stereology of regenerated lung constructs.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Harald C Ott 2010
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The researchers used a technique called voxel-based morphometry (VBM) to classify areas of brain tissue in their MRI images as grey matter, white matter, or cerebro-spinal fluid, and to compare the volume of each tissue at different stages of learning.
Medgadget 2010
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