cryosectionn.
/ˈkrʌɪə(ʊ)ˌsɛkʃn/, U.S. /ˈkraɪoʊˌsɛkʃ(ə)n/ 1. Engineering. A section of a wind tunnel which is cryogenically cooled. rare.
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1962 Adv. in Cryonic Engin. 7 b5. 82 The cryopump chamber and precooler will have an upstream and a downstream gate valve. The former will isolate the cryosection from the rest of the tunnel for model changes.
2. Biology and Medicine. A section of tissue for microscopic examination made from a freeze-dried tissue sample by means of a cryostat.
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1969 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 47 341/2 Cryosections of human gastric mucosa were treated with conjugated antiserum for thirty minutes, again washed three times..and mounted.
1990 Proc. Royal Microsc. Soc. 25 313/2 Micrograph competition... A cryosection of fish muscle tissue and a human melanoma cell.
2005 D. C. Gooding in M. E. Gorman et al. Sci. & Technol. Thinking ix. 189 Investigators made a close study of rates of glucose uptake and release in cryosections of many rat livers.
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cryosectionv.
/ˈkrʌɪə(ʊ)ˌsɛkʃn/, U.S. /ˈkraɪoʊˌsɛkʃ(ə)n/ Biology and Medicine.
transitive. To make a cryosection of (a tissue sample).
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1978 Cell Biol. Internat. Rep. 2 155 Clusters of dense particles were observed irregularly in mitochondrial profiles of shock-frozen brown adipose tissue and liver when cryosectioned at a chamber temperature of −80 degrees C.
2004 Environmental Health Perspectives 112 516 Fetuses were dissected from the uterus, frozen on pulverized dry ice, and stored at −80° C until cryosectioned.
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