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How to pronounce microtome in English?

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Type of scientific instrument

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Then, with a microtome, they cut off slices only hundredths of a millimeter thick.
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The slicing is usually accomplished through the use of a microtome, and slices are mounted on slides.
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This method complicates the study of whole cell morphology since exact consequent sequences of microtome slices must be imaged.
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The frozen tissue is sliced using a microtome, and the frozen slices are mounted on a glass slide and stained the same way as other methods.
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For light microscopy, a steel knife mounted in a microtome is used to cut 10-micrometer-thick tissue sections which are mounted on a glass microscope slide.
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Unlike immunocytochemistry, the tissue does not need to be permeabilized because this has already been accomplished by the microtome blade during sample preparation.
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  • Scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination
  • A microtome (from the Greek mikros, meaning "small", and temnein, meaning "to cut") is a sectioning instrument that allows for the cutting of extremely thin slices of material, known as sections. ...
  • Microtome is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
  • MIKE-ruh-tome/ An instrument for preparing thin slices of tissue.
  • Instrument for cutting tissues and specimens into ultra-thin sections so that they can be examined with a microscope.