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Microtome

noun
1.
Scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination.






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... half-erased diagrams of the previous day's work. The laboratory was empty, save for the demonstrator, who sat near the preparation-room door, and silent, save for a low, continuous murmur and the clicking of the rocker microtome at which he was working. But scattered about the room were traces of numerous students: hand-bags, polished boxes of instruments, in one place a large drawing covered by newspaper, and in another a prettily bound copy of News from Nowhere, ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells



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