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  • noun A thin glass plate used to cover samples mounted on a microscope slide

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Examples

  • Their new technique involves inserting the glass "coverslip", which means the mouse can live - and the cancer cells observed - for much longer, with the "micro-environment" surrounding the tumour kept intact.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2008

  • I have cut myself with a broken coverslip, cracked my head off an incubator door, gotten an unidentifiable rash on my arm, gotten blisters on my toes, and smashed my finger.

    Another reason to get done Sherrianne 2007

  • I have cut myself with a broken coverslip, cracked my head off an incubator door, gotten an unidentifiable rash on my arm, gotten blisters on my toes, and smashed my finger.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Sherrianne 2007

  • Interestingly it has a thick plastic coverslip tube with the Rose and the Doctor on it.

    November 26th, 2006 curufea 2006

  • He added the mounting medium Flo-Texx, then a coverslip, and placed the slide under the comparison microscope, which was connected to a video camera.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • He added the mounting medium Flo-Texx, then a coverslip, and placed the slide under the comparison microscope, which was connected to a video camera.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • He added the mounting medium Flo-Texx, then a coverslip, and placed the slide under the comparison microscope, which was connected to a video camera.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • He added the mounting medium Flo-Texx, then a coverslip, and placed the slide under the comparison microscope, which was connected to a video camera.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • That phantom cell surface, created with techniques that Groves developed as a graduate student, is a supported lipid bilayer membrane that floats atop a glass coverslip plated with a grid pattern of chromium.

    HHMI News 2010

  • The final exposure system consisted of 2 identical TEM cells that were designed to hold a single coverslip each (22 mm diameter) in a

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rodney P. O'Connor et al. 2010

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