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MICROTOMY

Definition: MICROTOMY

MICROTOMY

Noun

1. The art of using the microtome; investigation carried on with the microtome.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: MICROTOMY

DomainDefinitions

Health

The technique of using a microtome to cut thin or ultrathin sections of tissues embedded in a supporting substance. The microtome is an instrument that hold a steel, glass or diamond knife in clamps at an angle to the blocks of prepared tissues, which it cuts in sections of equal thickness. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MICROTOMY

English words defined with "MICROTOMY": Microtomist. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MICROTOMY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Basics of Histotechnology: Embedding & Microtomy (reference)

  • Essentials of microtomy (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: MICROTOMY

Language Translations for "MICROTOMY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

приготовление гистологических срезов. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thuật vi phẫu, thuật cắt vi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: MICROTOMY

Derivations

Words ending with "MICROTOMY": ultramicrotomy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "MICROTOMY"

Words rhyming with "MICROTOMY" (pronounced 'Mi*crot"o*my'): Academy, Adenotomy, Adesmy, Adynamy, Agronomy, Alchemy, Allogamy, Anatomy, Andranatomy, Androtomy, Angiotomy, Anomy, Antinomy, Aplotomy, Apogamy, Aponeurotomy, Archenemy, Army, Arrhytmy, Arteriotomy, Astronomy, Atimy, Autogamy, Autonomy, Belamy, BIGAMY, Bionomy, Blasphemy, Blosmy, Bronchotomy, Capsulotomy, Celotomy, Cephalotomy, Chalazogamy, Chasmy, Chirognomy, Chironomy, Cholecystotomy, Chondrotomy, Cirsotomy, Clammy, Cleronomy, Coenogamy, Colotomy, Craniognomy, Craniotomy, Crummy, Cystotomy, Dactylonomy, Dysnomy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MICROTOMY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-m-m-o-o-r-t-y"

-2 letters: motoric.

-3 letters: comity, commit, myotic, octroi.

-4 letters: commy, micro, moory, motor, roomy, rooty, tommy, toric, yomim.

-5 letters: city, coir, coot, corm, cory, immy, miry, mity, momi, moor, moot, mort, omit, otic, rimy, riot, room, root, roti, roto, ryot, tiro, toom, torc, tori, toro, tory, toyo, trim, trio, troy, tyro.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-m-m-o-o-r-t-y"
 

+2 letters: comminatory.

 

+3 letters: microanatomy.

 

+4 letters: communicatory, myrmecologist.

 

+5 letters: cosmochemistry, metronomically, myrmecologists, ultramicrotomy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MICROTOMY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 49 43 52 4F 54 4F 4D 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001001 01000011 01010010 01001111 01010100 01001111 01001101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#67 &#82 &#79 &#84 &#79 &#77 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0043 0052 004F 0054 004F 004D 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

474337524954494759

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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