Medical Device
cryostat Audio
cry·o·stat [ krahy-uh-stat ]
Definitions related to cryostat:
  • An instrument designed to cut frozen tissue specimens on the order of micron-scale thickness, generally for the purposes of histolgical evaluation.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Device by which temperature can be maintained at a very low level; in pathology and histology, a chamber containing a microtome for sectioning frozen tissue.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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