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Definition of Coverslip

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Coverslip

1. Thin glass, plastic, sapphire, SiO, NaCl, etc. Shaped into circles, squares, or rectangles for covering the specimen. Glass coverslips, grade no. 1 1/2, contain a high proportion of covers from 0.17 to 0.18 mm in thickness, close to the lens designer's specifications for employment of achromatic and apochromatic objectives of high numerical aperture. The thickness and refractive index of the glass coverslip are important because certain of their values have been assumed by the designer and manufacturer. These values have been specified by ASTM: thickness, commercial number 1 1/2: 0.16 to 0.19 mm, refractive index measured at the sodium D lines (589.3 nm), 1.523(0.005). (05 Aug 1998)

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Literary usage of Coverslip

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"Three small screws in the frame permit a coverslip to be brought to a fixed distance, eg £ mm., from the surface of the slide. The blood having been diluted ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"drop is then covered by a coverslip with a drop of sperm suspension on its lower surface, and to the other drop is added a drop of the same sperm ..."

3. A Manual of general or experimental pathology for students and practitioners by Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow (1904)
"AGGLUTINATION OF TYPHOID BACILLI, no bacilli are present in the CONTROL coverslip. x 40. dear fluid guch ^ altera- ... 10 is a coverslip film tlon ' i 1! ..."

4. The Mycology of the Mouth: A Text-book of Oral Bacteria by Sir Kenneth Weldon Goadby (1903)
"In coverslip preparations the bacteria are fixed on the coverslip, and stained by one or ... A coverslip is taken, and when the alcohol has been removed, ..."

5. American Gynecology (1903)
"In the second case there were cocci on coverslip examination from the ... coverslip and cultural examination of contents of the uterine cavity and the ..."

6. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1902)
"They are all necessarily in optical contact with the coverslip and are free to ... Then lay a clean sterile coverslip on the inoculated surface of the block ..."

7. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1905)
"Then lay a clean sterile coverslip on the inoculated surface of the block in close contact with it, as far as possible avoiding air-bubbles. ..."

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