hand lens
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The rarest was the minuscule rinodina isidioides - its tiny structures, when seen through a hand lens, resemble its common name, skeletal fingers.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
“We needed to lay on our bellies with a hand lens to observe the plant,” Guilliams said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
No hand lens is required to diagnose anthracnose, or the most common abiotic disorders.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
Occasionally, one of them would cradle it in one palm and bring a hand lens to it with the other, inspecting the carnivorous plant that was their bounty.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2019
If we were to examine with a hand lens the inner surface of the stomach, we would find it covered with little pits, or depressions, at the bottom of which would be seen dark dots.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
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