MICROSCOPE SLIDE SETS: Variety

MICROSCOPE SLIDE SETS: Variety

•  A wide variety of Microscope Slide Sets for use in the science laboratory includes : Algae | Animal | Basic | Bacteria | Biology | General | Histology | Introductory | Morphology | Plant.
•  ABBREVIATIONS for prepared microscope slides specimens:
CS (Cross-section): The specimen was cut perpendicularly to its longest axis.
E: An inverted reversed image so specimen appears upside down and backwards..
LS (Longitudinal section): A specimen cut lengthwise parallel to its longest axis.
MED (Median): The slide features a section cut from the middle of the specimen.
RLS (Radial longitudinal section): A cut made parallel to the long axis and along a radius of the specimen.
SEC (Section): This is a general term for a thinly sliced section of a specimen.
SM or SMR (Smear): The specimen, such as blood, was spread thinly across the slide.
SQ (Squashed): A prepared specimen squashed between a slide and a coverslip.
ST (Stained): Specimen treated with a dye stain to make its structures more visible.
TS (Transverse section): An alternative term for a Cross-Section (CS).
VS (Vertical section): A cut made along the vertical plane of the specimen..
WM (Whole mount): The entire, intact specimen is mounted on the slide and typically used for very small organisms or parts of organisms.
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(Wikipedia excerpt: ..."...A microscope slide is a thin flat piece of glass, typically 75 by 26mm and about 1mm thick, used to hold objects for examination under a microscope. Typically the object is mounted (secured) on the slide, and then both are inserted together in the microscope for viewing. This arrangement allows several slide-mounted objects to be quickly inserted and removed from the microscope, labeled, transported, and stored in appropriate slide cases or folders etc.

Microscope slides are often used together with a cover slip or cover glass, a smaller and thinner sheet of glass that is placed over the specimen. Slides are held in place on the microscope's stage by slide clips, slide clamps or a cross-table which is used to achieve precise, remote movement of the slide upon the microscope's stage (such as in an automated/computer operated system, or where touching the slide with fingers is inappropriate either due to the risk of contamination or lack of precision)...")

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