"Microtome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inflamed area is examined, after twenty-four hours, by hardening the tissue in some of the fluids used for this purpose and cutting it into very thin slices by means of an instrument called a microtome, the microscope shows a series of changes which were not apparent on naked eye examination. The texture is looser, due to the exudate which has dilated all the spaces in the tissue. Red and white corpuscles in varying ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman
... blackboard, and on these were the half-erased diagrams of the previous day's work. The laboratory was empty, save for the demonstrator, who sat near the preparation-room door, and silent, save for a low, continuous murmur and the clicking of the rocker microtome at which he was working. But scattered about the room were traces of numerous students: hand-bags, polished boxes of instruments, in one place a large drawing covered by newspaper, and in another a prettily bound copy of News from Nowhere, a book oddly at variance with its surroundings. ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells |
