Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument for counting the number of blood cells in a measured volume of blood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for counting the corpuscles of blood.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
hemocytometer .
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Examples
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I have learned/refreshed my knowledge of how to make media (I worked in a lab last summer also), plated cells, and counted them using a hemacytometer … Another great thing about my lab is how many women there are.
Blogging Duke Biosci Undergrads Peggy 2007
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I have learned/refreshed my knowledge of how to make media (I worked in a lab last summer also), plated cells, and counted them using a hemacytometer … Another great thing about my lab is how many women there are.
Archive 2007-06-01 Peggy 2007
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In vitro cell proliferation was assessed by cell counts with a hemacytometer.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Donald Courter et al. 2010
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The approximate cell numbers collected were determined using a hemacytometer, and samples were then normalized to cell number (cell numbers never varied by more than 5\%).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Piyali Mukherjee et al. 2009
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The approximate cell numbers collected were determined using a hemacytometer, and samples were then normalized to cell number (cell numbers never varied by more than 5\%).
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Total leukocyte count was determined with a hemacytometer, and differential count by cytocentrifugation of 300 µl of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid at 450×g for 5 min, followed by Wright-Giemsa staining.
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H. capsulatum yeasts as enumerated by hemacytometer with concentrations ranging from 0 to 1.0 mM of hydrogen peroxide (
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