micropattern
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micropattern (plural micropatterns)
- A microscopic pattern
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micropattern (third-person singular simple present micropatterns, present participle micropatterning, simple past and past participle micropatterned)
- (engineering) To control the spatial arrangement of objects at the microscopic level
- 1999, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, “Micropatterning cells in tissue engineering”, in Morgan & Yarmush, editors, Tissue Engineering Methods and Protocols[1], →ISBN, page 352:
- These modified substrates are utilized to pattern a single cell type, or to micropattern two cell types to control their level of interaction.