Cryostat
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A device used to maintain a constant low temperature.
- 2 a thermostat that operates at very low temperatures wordnet
- 3 A device used to maintain a constant low temperature.; A microtome held at a constant low temperature.
"For Jaumain[…]that long period of uncertainty began on 31 May 2010, when she stabbed her left thumb with a curved forceps while cleaning a cryostat—a machine that can cut tissues at very low temperatures—that she used to slice brain sections from transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE."
Example
More examples"For Jaumain[…]that long period of uncertainty began on 31 May 2010, when she stabbed her left thumb with a curved forceps while cleaning a cryostat—a machine that can cut tissues at very low temperatures—that she used to slice brain sections from transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE."
Etymology
From cryo- + -stat.
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