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cover slip
cover slip
noun
- a very thin piece of glass placed over a specimen on a glass slide that is to be examined under a microscope
Word History and Origins
Origin of cover slip1
Example Sentences
To observe the granules’ movements, Brangwynne squeezed worm gonads that harbor the structures between two microscope cover slips.
He and his colleagues removed the organs of Corti, home of the hair bundles, from the ears of mouse pups, and cultured them on microscope-slide cover slips.
From then on, she had to wear socks and long pants to bed under her nightgown -- even in the summer -- lest the bed cover slip off and expose here bare skin to her stepfather.
If the section be very delicate, the cover slip should be placed over it before it is moved to the proper slide.
I then separated the ether carefully from the rest of the blood mixture and put a few drops of it on a slide, covered them with a cover slip and sealed the edges with balsam.
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