Across
- 5. Other name for rocking microtome
- 6. applied immediately to tissue after its removal from living body
- 8. water miscible preparation
- 11. Hightens the color of the dye
- 18. Involves application of different color to give contrast
- 20. Microtome for electron microscopy
- 21. Movable part is the knife
- 23. Best vital stain
- 25. Uses intermittent burst of carbon dioxide to freeze block holder and tissue
- 26. Tissue elements are demonstrated not by stains but by solutions of metallic salts
- 27. For mitochondria
- 28. Most dangerous microtome
- 29. Polishing and sharpening the cutting edge
- 32. Promote attachment of tissue sections to slides
- 33. Stains living cells
- 34. Invented sliding microtome
- 35. Hone that gives a more polishing effect
- 36. Tisse is first overstained
- 38. Microtome knive to cut paraffin
- 40. Device used to cut tissues
- 41. For fresh tissue microtomy
- 42. For electron microscope
- 44. Invented Rotary microtome
- 45. To prevent escape of fluid
- 46. Knife use to cut frozen sections
Down
- 1. Bridge/link between the dye and the tissue
- 2. Process of removing excess paraffin wax from tissues once properly fixed on the slide
- 3. Other term for decolorization
- 4. Less dangerous sliding microtome
- 7. Staining tissues with a color that is different
- 9. Invented freezing microtome
- 10. Invented rocking microtome
- 12. Process to remove nicks
- 13. Process of applying dye
- 14. A red acid dye for cytoplasmic stain
- 15. Cutting tissues to thin slices
- 16. Most common type of microtome
- 17. Stain in a definite sequence
- 19. Do not use in stroping
- 22. recommended for spx dehydrated and cleared with xylene
- 24. Selective removal of dye
- 30. Uses an accentuator or mordant
- 31. Trimming in semi-thin sectioning in EM
- 37. Most simple microtome
- 39. injected to any part of a living body
- 40. Applying a mounting medium
- 43. Staining technique that uses aqueous/alcoholic dye to produce a color