Definition of Microscope stage

1. Noun. A small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination.

Exact synonyms: Stage
Generic synonyms: Platform

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microscope Stage

microsatellites
microsats
microscale
microscaled
microscales
microscanning
microschizonts
microscintigraphy
microsclerodermin
microsclerodermins
microscopal
microscope
microscope mirror
microscope slide
microscope stage (current term)
microscopes
microscopial
microscopic
microscopic anatomy
microscopic field
microscopic haematuria
microscopic section
microscopic sphincter
microscopical
microscopically
microscopically controlled surgery
microscopics
microscopies
microscopist

Literary usage of Microscope stage

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

1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"This crystallographic direction is brought parallel to one of the cross-hairs of the microscope and the angular position of the microscope stage noted. ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"The discharge tube was held by a mechanical support so arranged that by moving a lever the discharge tube moved down and away from the microscope stage. ..."

3. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"... the ocular is removed, and the image of the center of the drawing-table is made to coincide with that of the center of the microscope stage. ..."

4. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"... the ocular is removed, and the image of the center of the drawing-table is made to coincide with that of the center of the microscope stage. ..."

5. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1914)
"... the ocular is removed, and the image of the center of the drawing-table is made to coincide with that of the center of the microscope stage. ..."

6. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Study of Minerals and Crystals by Edward Henry ( Kraus, Walter Fred Hunt (1920)
"Convergent light is easily obtained by using an objective of high magnification and inserting a condensing lens below the microscope stage. ..."

7. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1901)
"This consists of two pulleys, one of which is placed on each of the adjusting screws of the microscope stage. On the camera table, immediately beneath these ..."

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