Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson Ray Suarez: Reporter's Notebook: A Clinic's Strains in MozambiqueĪnd it's the cosmos in microcosm, of course – another advantage. It was, in microcosm, an illustration of the success, and burden of the success of managing AIDS as a chronic disease in sub-Saharan Africa. The fourteenth century had a lot going on throughout Europe, and what makes World Without End an incredible novel is that Follett uses the monumental and catastrophic events in microcosm focused through a couple of small towns in England. noun A relatively small object or system considered as representative of a larger system of which it is part, exhibiting many features of the complete system.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. noun A little world a miniature universe.noun A little world or cosmos the world in miniature something representing or assumed to represent the principle of universality: often applied to man regarded as an epitome, physically and morally, of the universe or great world (the macrocosm).įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun A small, representative system having analogies to a larger system in constitution, configuration, or development.1986 Cairns & Cherry 1993).From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
The method is relatively labour intensive (24-30 microcosms ' are run) and more difficult to interpret when compared with other ' microcosm methods (Shannon et al. Calow (editor), ''Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, page 53: Zeeman, Chapter 3: Assessing Risks to Ecological Systems from Chemicals'', Peter P. (ecology) A small natural ecosystem an artificial ecosystem set up as an experimental model.They experienced a microcosm of this within the opening 45 minutes at the Stadium of Light.}} , passage=Steve Bruce's side have swung from highs to lows in what has been at best a wildly inconsistent start to the season. ‘In a sense, the problems experienced at Bristol are like a microcosm of what is happening in the NHS - experienced surgeons battling against difficult circumstances, with inadequate resources and in a culture where the finding of scapegoats appears to be put before the finding of solutions.’
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