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Definition of Fixatives
1. fixative [n] - See also: fixative
Medical Definition of Fixatives
1. Agents employed in the preparation of histologic or pathologic specimens for the purpose of maintaining the existing form and structure of all of the constituent elements. Great numbers of different agents are used; some are also decalcifying and hardening agents. They must quickly kill and coagulate living tissue. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixatives
Literary usage of Fixatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Immunity in Infective Diseases by Elie Metchnikoff (1907)
"The fixatives and their function in acquired immunity.—The fixatives are excreted
by the phagocytes and pass readily into the fluids of the body. ..."
2. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"fixatives.—A useful procedure is o fix the wet film by exposure to 4 per cent,
... Other fixatives may be employed, such as are also useful for fixing ..."
3. Methods of Research in Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology by Charles Otis Whitman (1885)
"CHAPTER V. fixatives FOR SERIAL SECTIONS. ALTHOUGH the first attempts at fixing
sections, by Mayer and Gaule,1 were partially successful, the problem was ..."
4. Practical Histology by John Newport Langley (1901)
"fixatives. FLUIDS FOR MOUNTING. A. Transferring a number of sections from one
fluid to another. In preparing a number of sections for class work, ..."
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