Definitions for microtome

microtome mi·cro·tome

Spelling: [mahy-kruh-tohm]
IPA: /ˈmaɪ krəˌtoʊm/

Microtome is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in microtome (ceimmoort).

Definitions for microtome

noun

  1. an instrument for cutting very thin sections, as of organic tissue, for microscopic examination.

Origin of microtome

First recorded in 1855-60; micro- + -tome

Examples for microtome

An instrument which will cut a blood corpuscle into several parts—that's the microtome, the "small-cutter," as the name implies.

The demonstrator turned, walked slowly back past the microtome, and left the laboratory by the preparation-room door.

There's a microtome in the laboratory here, but I might take weeks to get on terms with it.

Murt found Phyllis Sutton at the microtome, finishing a wax section, and showed her the bulletin.

When cold, the sections may be cut in any of the ordinary forms of microtome.

My hunting knife, honed as fine as the edge of a microtome blade.

If a microtome takes a liking to you, she'll work herself to the bone while you merely rest your hand on the lever.

Henceforth I'll keep to the strictly neutral 'it' when I mention a microtome.

I leave the problem to the masters of the microtome and the scalpel.

After hardening, sections were obtained of the paint film by means of a microtome.

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