The phrase "a gross scale" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is large, significant, or extreme in size or impact.
Example: "The project was undertaken on a gross scale, affecting thousands of lives and altering the landscape of the region."
Alternatives: "a massive scale" or "a large scale".
If you are encoding a movie on your computer and set quality to "draft," it will search for edges only on a gross scale, only sample color every X pixels instead of Y pixels, and so on.
At a gross scale, there was no obvious division into small and large intestine, as also reported in six other morphometrics studies in bats (reviewed by [26]).
Our finding that the denticles rotate by a similar degree indicates that Wg and Hh are sufficient to instruct denticle rotation and therefore suggests that they act as directional cues for the planar cell polarity of epithelial cell sheets on a gross scale.
On a gross scale, promoters with low levels of methylation (top row), have peak numbers of up-regulated genes in the more CpG-dense promoter bins.
Indeed, chromosomal and array-based comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH) analyses have defined, on a gross scale, the genomic profile of lobular carcinomas - in short, they harbour fewer chromosomal changes than ductal carcinomas and are generally less complex.
On a gross scale, localized failure of cerebellar development, cerebral cortical abnormalities, altered amygdala development and decreased corpus callosum size have been reported (Amaral et al, 2008; Bauman & Kemper, 2005; Hughes, 2007; Wegiel et al, 2010).
On a more gross scale, fetal guinea pigs with placental insufficiency had reduced cross-sectional corpus callosum and striatum area.
During weeks two and three, student teams make a series of observations, both at the gross scale and the micro scale (using dissecting and compound microscopes, respectively), of live and preserved animals representing nine animal phyla that form the basis of their study.
Comparisons between the infant and adult brain activity was considered on a gross anatomical scale.
These results are used in section to obtain coarse estimates of equilibration times for crossing a single bilayer on a gross time scale, in regard to its dependence on the structure of the chemicals.
The finding that, as in humans, developmental programs in D. melanogaster require functional peroxisomes is demonstrated by the gross scale malformations noted in the organization of the central and peripheral nervous systems of mutant flies.
