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Ocular Micrometer

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Ocular Micrometer 

a built-in micrometer in the eyepiece (ocular) of a microscope, geodetic instrument, or astronomical instrument. It is used for exact measurements of small linear and angular distances and for increasing the accuracy of sighting in theodolites. A filar micrometer is most often used as an ocular micrometer.



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Veligers were counted and shells were measured for total length with a calibrated ocular micrometer.
The diameters of the first 500 oocytes encountered were measured with an ocular micrometer for each fish.
Larvae were killed with 4% formaldehyde, and measured on days 1, 4, 7 and 10 after using a microscope (xl00) equipped with an ocular micrometer.
 
 
 
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