(n.) An instrument for making very thin sections for microscopical examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enzyme activities in sections of fixed corneas were minimal in comparison with those in cold microtome sections of unfixed material revealed particularly with the technic of semipermeable membranes which is to be preferred.
(2) A reduction to about 0.60 of the microtome setting was measured in two different areas of the brain.
(3) Seventy minutes after intravenous administration, the brain is rapidly frozen and cut on a cryostate microtome.
(4) Sections, 50 microns thick, were cut on a freezing microtome.
(5) With Polycut microtome, 5 microns undecalcified sections were made and stained with 1% toluidine blue.
(6) Slices (20 microns) of cheese from the boundary layer, into which DEHA had migrated, were microtomed at -40 degrees C, and analyzed for DEHA by gas chromatography (GC).
(7) In relation to other normal histological freezer microtome, the cytological method of fine needle biopsy has the advantage of being completely without complication.
(8) Glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) activity was measured in the individual cortical layers using serial sections cut on a freezing microtome parallel to the cortical surface.
(9) The resin is polymerized at 4 C. Thin sections (1-2 microns) are obtained with a sliding microtome, and ultrathin sections (60-90 millimicrons) with a ultramicrotome.
(10) His studies into histological staining techniques (principle of elective staining, mordant staining, staining of myelin sheaths) as well as into microtome techniques proved essential to progress in pathology and bacteriology.
(11) However, there appeared to be a linear relationship between microtome setting and the thickness of dewaxed sections.
(12) Sections of the ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra were cut with a freezing microtome and the method of Kyösöla et al.
(13) A method of microtome slicing of the renal cortex was developed to standardize measurements.
(14) Of three techniques for preparing the spermatozoa, the pre-embedding method and marking of cryoultra-microtome sections proved best.
(15) Infusion of the marker followed by freezing and examination of the cut heads on a freezing microtome, shows fluorescence throughout the ventricular system, in the subarachnoid space adjacent to the posterior tela and also along the dorsal subarachnoid space of the spinal cord.
(16) This work describes the pathologic anatomy of the burst fracture both on the gross structure and also on microtome sections of the vertebrae, and examines the biomechanics of fracture reduction.
(17) They were evaluated by preparing undecalcified microtome sections and ground sections which were examined by light microscopy and microradiography.
(18) In frozen microtome sections histoenzymatic reactions were performed to detect enzymatic activity of some phosphatases and esterases.
(19) The technique, which is inexpensive, permits cutting sections or viewing surfaces from specimens up to 8 cm long, while protecting the microtome knife from damage.
(20) Sections of the frozen tissue samples are prepared on the cryostatic microtome, placed on nitrocellulose filters and hybridized with labelled DNA-probes under the conditions of RNA blot hybridization.
Section
Definition:
(n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
(n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
(n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
(n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.
(n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
(n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
(n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
(n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
(n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(2) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(3) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(4) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(5) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(7) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(8) Lung sections of rats exposed to quartz particles were significantly different.
(9) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(10) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(11) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(12) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(13) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(14) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
(15) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(16) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(17) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(18) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(19) Using a monoclonal antibody against dopamine and a rabbit antiserum against serotonin, 5-methoxytryptamine or tryptamine, we were able to achieve the simultaneous localization of two amines in glutaraldehyde-fixed sections of rat dorsal raphe nuclei.
(20) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.