microtome

English

A microtome

Etymology

Could be construed as either micro +‎ -tome (“instrument for cutting”) or micro- +‎ tome.

Noun

microtome (plural microtomes)

1. A special instrument that produces very thin slices of plant and animal tissues, for later examination by light microscope or electron microscope.

   Hyponym: cryostat

   • 1998, Robert Bud; Deborah Jean Warner, editors, Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 401:

     The first microtome was constructed for John Hill, to make the specimens described in his book on the structure of timber (1770).

Translations

special instrument

• German: Mikrotom (de) n
• Irish: micreatóm m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikrotom m

  Nynorsk: mikrotom m

• Tagalog: mikgayat

Verb

microtome (third-person singular simple present microtomes, present participle microtoming, simple past and past participle microtomed)

1. To cut into sections using a microtome

Further reading

• microtome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

micro- +‎ -tome

Noun

microtome m (plural microtomes)

1. microtome

Related terms

• microtomie

Further reading

• “microtome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.