Definition of cryostat in English:
cryostat
noun ˈkrʌɪə(ʊ)statˈkraɪəˌstæt
1An apparatus for maintaining a very low temperature.
Example sentencesExamples
- Using cyromolds that have been chilled on dry ice or in the cryostat, use a layer of OCT embeding compound and press the tissue to the bottom of the flat surface.
- Temperature was controlled by a gold-chromel thermocouple at the base of the cryostat and monitored with an identical thermocouple immersed directly in the sample (approximately 3 mm above the illuminated volume) during measurement.
- The spectrometer was modified to incorporate an Oxford cryostat at the sample compartment.
- The sample was then mounted in a cryostat and cooled down rapidly.
- To achieve temperatures of 77 K, we used a liquid nitrogen cryostat.
2A cold chamber in which frozen tissue is divided with a microtome.
as modifier cryostat sections about 5μm thick
Example sentencesExamples
- Twelve-micrometer serial sections of head or body were cut in a cryostat at - 18°.
- Smooth muscle area was determined in 8-m-thick cryostat lung sections.
- A post-doc was working on a cryostat, cutting microscopically thin sections of tissue.
- Heads and bodies of wild-type flies were cut into 12-m sections using a cryostat and hybridized with the relevant probe.
- The cross section of the cervical tissue containing both the epithelium and stroma was exposed by shaving off layers of the embedding medium and tissue using a cryostat.
Definition of cryostat in US English:
cryostat
nounˈkraɪəˌstætˈkrīəˌstat
1An apparatus for maintaining a very low temperature.
Example sentencesExamples
- Temperature was controlled by a gold-chromel thermocouple at the base of the cryostat and monitored with an identical thermocouple immersed directly in the sample (approximately 3 mm above the illuminated volume) during measurement.
- The spectrometer was modified to incorporate an Oxford cryostat at the sample compartment.
- To achieve temperatures of 77 K, we used a liquid nitrogen cryostat.
- Using cyromolds that have been chilled on dry ice or in the cryostat, use a layer of OCT embeding compound and press the tissue to the bottom of the flat surface.
- The sample was then mounted in a cryostat and cooled down rapidly.
- 1.1 An apparatus for taking very fine slices of tissue while it is kept very cold.
Example sentencesExamples
- The cross section of the cervical tissue containing both the epithelium and stroma was exposed by shaving off layers of the embedding medium and tissue using a cryostat.
- Smooth muscle area was determined in 8-m-thick cryostat lung sections.
- A post-doc was working on a cryostat, cutting microscopically thin sections of tissue.
- Twelve-micrometer serial sections of head or body were cut in a cryostat at - 18°.
- Heads and bodies of wild-type flies were cut into 12-m sections using a cryostat and hybridized with the relevant probe.