Definition of microtome
: an instrument for cutting sections (as of biological tissues) for microscopic examination
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As a journalist and novelist, Tom Wolfe could, like no one else, take one particular broad subject — class and status — and slice it thin for examination and diagnosis, like a pathologist with a microtome.
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Then, using a special instrument, a microtome, the technician would slice the paraffin block into ultrathin sections, about 0.0002 inches thick.
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Origin and Etymology of microtome
International Scientific Vocabulary
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of microtome
: an instrument for cutting sections (as of organic tissues) for microscopic examination
- bone-sectioning microtomes
medical Definition of microtome
microtomed;
microtoming
: to cut in sections with a microtome
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