microtome
verbEtymology Could be construed as either micro + -tome (“instrument for cutting”) or micro- + tome.
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To cut into sections using a microtome
microtome
nounEtymology Could be construed as either micro + -tome (“instrument for cutting”) or micro- + tome.
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A special instrument that produces very thin slices of plant and animal tissues, for later examination by light microscope or electron microscope.
- The first microtome was constructed for John Hill, to make the specimens described in his book on the structure of timber (1770).1998, Robert Bud, Deborah Jean Warner, editors, Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 401:
- Derived terms
- cryomicrotome, histomicrotome, microtomic, microtomize, ultramicrotome