freeze fracture
freeze fracture
nounDefinition of FREEZE FRACTURE
: preparation of a specimen (as of tissue) for examination by an electron microscope after freezing, fracturing along natural structural lines, and preparing a replica (as by simultaneous vapor deposition of carbon and platinum)
— freeze–frac·ture adjective
First Known Use of FREEZE FRACTURE
1973
Rhymes with FREEZE FRACTURE
freeze fracture
noun (Medical Dictionary)Medical Definition of FREEZE FRACTURE
—freeze–fracture transitive verb
Variants of FREEZE FRACTURE
freeze fracture also freeze–fracturing
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