Ultrastructure

Encyclopedia : U : UL : ULT : Ultrastructure

Ultrastructure is the detailed structure of a biological specimen, such as a cell, tissue, or organ, that can be observed by electron microscopy. It refers in general to the study of cellular structures that are too small to be seen with an optical microscope. The term is also sometimes spelled Ultra-Structure.

Ultra-Structure is also the name given to a notational system for representing complex rules (see Long, J., and Denning, D., Ultra-Structure: A design theory for complex systems and processes. In Communications of the ACM (January 1995)

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.