Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument used to cut a specimen, as of organic tissue, into thin sections for microscopic examination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut (a tissue or organ) into thin sections with the aid of a microtome.
- noun An instrument for making very fine sections or thin slices of objects for microscopic examination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for making very thin sections for microscopical examination.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A special instrument that produces very thin
slices of plant and animaltissues , for later examination by lightmicroscope orelectron microscope . - verb To
cut intosections using a microtome
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination
Etymologies
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Examples
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When an inflamed area is examined, after twenty-four hours, by hardening the tissue in some of the fluids used for this purpose and cutting it into very thin slices by means of an instrument called a microtome, the microscope shows a series of changes which were not apparent on naked eye examination.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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And you have a very sharp knife or what's now called a microtome.
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A microtome could later be used to slice the sample into segments thin enough to be mounted on microscope slides.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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And you have a very sharp knife or what's now called a microtome.
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A microtome could later be used to slice the sample into segments thin enough to be mounted on microscope slides.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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And you have a very sharp knife or what's now called a microtome.
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And you have a very sharp knife or what's now called a microtome.
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And you have a very sharp knife or what's now called a microtome.
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A microtome could later be used to slice the sample into segments thin enough to be mounted on microscope slides.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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Does someone here know anyone that can slice this in a microtome and drip some hexavalent isochickenbromide to figure out the DNA jibba jabba of this sucka?
You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » What eez it man? 2005
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A microtome is a device used in the lab to make very thin and constant slices of tissue.
Want to Live Longer and Healthier? Peter Attia Has a Plan. David Marchese 2023
oroboros commented on the word microtome
A machine for slicing substances very very thin for examination under a microscope.
July 15, 2007
oroboros commented on the word microtome
Daffynition: A tiny, tiny book of substantial proportions.
July 15, 2007