cryostat
nounEtymology From cryo- + -stat.
1
A device used to maintain a constant low temperature.
2
Biology, Natural sciences A microtome held at a constant low temperature.
- For Jaumain[…]that long period of uncertainty began on 31 May 2010, when she stabbed her left thumb with a curved forceps while cleaning a cryostat—a machine that can cut tissues at very low temperatures—that she used to slice brain sections from transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE.2021 July 28, Barbara Casassus, “France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers”, in Science:
- Derived terms
- thermocryostat
- Related terms
- cryostasis, cryostatic, cryocooler